Jun 6, 2022Harry Belafonte to Test Atlanta Segregation LawsJune 6, 1962 - Harry Belafonte (right), the Negro singer, and a racially mixed group were accepted for registration at an Atlanta motel...
Jun 4, 2022Rockefeller Touts Civil Rights Record, Challenges KennedyJune 4, 1962 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller replied today to a Democratic challenge on civil rights and issued one to President Kennedy in...
Jun 3, 2022TV Networks Clarify Racial Stance in CastingJune 3, 1962 - NBC and ABC reaffirmed today what they called their longstanding policy of nondiscrimination in the use of Negro actors on...
Jun 2, 202217-year-old Negro Civil Rights Activist Honored in New YorkJune 2, 1962 - A 17-year-old Negro girl who spent more than a month in a Mississippi jail and nearly seven months in a reform school for...