MLK: We Must Double Negro Vote
Aug. 31, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King (pictured left on Wednesday) said today that the leaders of the civil rights movement would now...
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- Aug 28
Dr. King Shines at Washington March
Aug. 28, 1963 - At today’s massive march on Washington, there was one man who touched and ignited the vast multitude most deeply: the...
- Aug 28
🚨Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate for Civil Rights in D.C.
Aug. 28, 1963 - More than 200,000 Americans, most of them Negroes but many of them white, demonstrated in Washington, D.C. today for a...
- Aug 14
NYPD Chooses First Negro to Study at FBI National Academy
Aug. 14, 1963 - The New York Police Department has chosen Lieutenant Lloyd Sealy (center in 1959) as the first Negro on the New York...
- Aug 11
James Hood Withdraws from University of Alabama
Aug. 11, 1963 - James Hood (left), a Negro student facing imminent expulsion from the University of Alabama for having criticized its...
- Aug 1
President Kennedy Comments on Civil Rights Demonstrations
Aug. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy welcomed today an apparent slackening in Negro demonstrations in some areas. However, he warned that the...
- Jul 26
MLK: Civil Rights Movement Employs No Communists
July 26, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today a 39-year-old Negro linked by Congressional committees to the Communist movement had...
- Jul 25
JFK: No Evidence MLK Is Communist or Communist-Controlled
July 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Justice Department had no evidence that Dr. Martin Luther King and...
- Jul 15
Wallace Attacks Kennedy Civil Rights Program
July 15, 1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace challenged the Kennedy Administration today to submit its civil rights legislation to a...
- Jul 6
July 6, 1963 | (VIDEO) Martin Luther King Press Conference
July 6, 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. was interviewed last night by four journalists for “Press Conference U.S.A.,” a U.S. Information...
- Jul 5
Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind” a Breakout Hit
July 5, 1963 - The racial crisis in the South has become a theme of major importance for folk singers of the North. A concert this...
- Jul 1
RFK Pushes Administration’s Civil Rights Bill
July 1, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked the Senate today to pass a strong public accommodations bill in order to root out...
- Jun 23
MLK Speaks in Detroit
June 23, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King tonight told a cheering throng of Negro demonstrators the American Negro wants freedom “here and...
- Jun 22
President Kennedy Meets with Negro Leaders
June 22, 1963 - Negro leaders told President Kennedy today that massive demonstrations would continue until the civil rights problem was...
- Jun 9
June 9, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King on "Open End" with David Susskind
June 9, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King was the featured guest today on David Susskind's interview program, "Open End," on New York's...
- Jun 9
President Kennedy Speaks on Race Relations at Mayors Conference in Honolulu
June 9, 1963 - President Kennedy told the National Conference of Mayors in Honolulu today that in “a moment of moral and constitutional...
- Jun 9
Dr. King Hits Kennedy on Civil Rights
June 9, 1963 - The civil rights approach of the Kennedy Administration as compared with that of the Eisenhower Administration has merely...
- Jun 5
Malcolm X Assails Non-Violent Policy of Martin Luther King
June 5, 1963 - Malcolm X, the Eastern leader of the Black Muslim movement, charged last night that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s...
- Jun 1
Roy Wilkins Arrested in Mississippi
June 1, 1963 - Roy Wilkins (center), 61, executive secretary of the NAACP, was arrested in Jackson, Miss. today for picketing the F.W....
- Jun 1
Wallace Still Defies Federal Court Injunction
June 1, 1963 - Governor George Wallace said today that not even a Federal Court injunction would deter him from attempting to block...
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