1960s Timeline

May 3, 1963 - The anti-segregation demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama today appeared to be older than those who marched yesterday —...

May 3, 1963 - Fire hoses and police dogs were used in Birmingham, Alabama today to disperse Negro students protesting racial segregation....

May 3, 1963 - Singing “We Shall Overcome,” five whites and five Negroes who call themselves “Freedom Walkers” continued today the journey...

May 3, 1963 - Malcolm X, controversial national spokesman for the Nation of Islam and minister of Temple No. 7 in Harlem, journeyed to...

May 2, 1963 - Ten “Freedom Walkers” — five whites and five Negroes — engaged in a debate this afternoon with fifteen white teenagers in...

May 2, 1963 - Hundreds of young Negroes, many of them in their teens or younger, demonstrated through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama...

May 1, 1963 - Five white persons and five Negroes completed today the first leg of a four-hundred-mile “Freedom Walk” to Jackson, Miss....

Apr. 29, 1963 - Six whites and six Negroes planned today to leave Chattanooga, Tenn., at dawn Wednesday to finish a slain postman’s...

Apr. 27, 1963 - In Gadsden, Alabama tonight, Etowah County Sheriff Dewey Colvard said first-degree murder charges would be filed against...

Apr. 26, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, visiting Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, praised progress made in Georgia and...

Apr. 23, 1963 - A 35-year-old Baltimore mailman was shot and killed today while hiking to Mississippi to urge Governor Ross Barnett to...

Apr. 20, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was released from Birmingham City Jail today after posting a $300 cash bond. Dr. King and 30...

Apr. 18, 1963 - Mrs. Coretta Scott King talked this afternoon with her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, through a glass...

Apr. 17, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham had this advice today for “a good personal friend,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Put...

Apr. 15, 1963 - Mrs. Coretta Scott King said today President Kennedy had told her he hoped the change of government in Birmingham might...

Apr. 15, 1963 - In Birmingham, Alabama today, Mayor Albert Boutwell and the new City Council were sworn in. They pledged to give...

Apr. 14, 1963 - Negroes protesting the arrest of leaders of an attempted march in Birmingham, Alabama hurled rocks at policemen today....

Apr. 13, 1963 - President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy were urged in telegrams today to act immediately “to end the...

Apr. 13, 1963 - Negroes continued to demonstrate against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama today despite the jailing yesterday of...

Apr. 12, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama this afternoon when he defied a court injunction...