Jan 14, 2022New Hearing on Negro's Right to Attend University of MississippiJan. 14, 1962 - Federal Judge Sidney Mize is scheduled to open a final hearing tomorrow on Mississippi’s first integration lawsuit in the...
Jan 6, 2022In Georgia, a 15-year-old Negro boy, Preston Cobb Jr., Faces Death SentenceJan. 6, 1962 - In Georgia’s Reidsville Prison, a 15-year-old Negro boy, Preston Cobb Jr., is under sentence of death for killing a...
Jan 1, 2022President Hails Roy Wilkins of NAACPJan. 1, 1962 - President Kennedy hailed Roy Wilkins (pictured center in 1959 with Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall) of the...
Dec 28, 2021Justice Department Wants Louisiana Voting Law Struck DownDec. 28, 1961 - The Justice Department asked a Federal court today to strike down a Louisiana law requiring voters to pass a...