1960s Timeline

Nov. 23, 1962 - The prospective admission of a Negro to the University of Alabama has brought one of the South’s most extensive efforts...

Nov. 20, 1962 - Negro and Northern spokesmen said today that President Kennedy’s order barring discrimination in Federally aided housing...

Nov. 20, 1962 - A University of Mississippi freshman who ate with James H. Meredith (pictured right) last Thursday has left the campus....

Nov. 18, 1962 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King charged today that FBI agents in Albany, Ga., side with the segregationists. For that...

Nov. 10, 1962 - Approximately $60,000 has been raised to rebuild three Negro churches destroyed by fire in southwest Georgia last summer...

Nov. 10, 1962 - James Meredith said today he had fallen behind in his work at the University of Mississippi and would seek help from a...

Nov. 3, 1962 - The University of Mississippi expelled four students today on charges stemming from demonstrations against James H....

Oct. 31, 1962 - A show of strength tonight by faculty members, state patrolmen, and military policemen at the University of Mississippi...

Oct. 20, 1962 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today that he planned to recruit a “nonviolent army” to fight segregation in Alabama, where...

Oct. 15, 1962 - James H. Meredith began his third week of classes at the University of Mississippi today. For the first time, no jeers or...

Oct. 12, 1962 - Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett has suggested a plan that could lead to the expulsion of James H. Meredith (pictured...

Oct. 8, 1962 - At the University of Mississippi at Oxford this evening, a stone was hurled through the window of the campus cafeteria...

Oct. 8, 1962 - Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach (pictured left in May) told students at the University of Mississippi Law...

Oct. 8, 1962 - Two Federal deputy marshals, just back from Oxford, Miss., said today that Governor Ross R. Barnett and the Mississippi...

Oct. 6, 1962 - A United States deputy marshal, back home in San Francisco from the University of Mississippi, placed major blame for the...

Oct. 4, 1962 - Twenty-nine-year-old Negro Air Force veteran James H. Meredith went to classes today at the University of Mississippi at...

Oct. 4, 1962 - The number of injuries inflicted by a howling mob of 2,500 that laid siege to U.S. marshals at the University of...

Oct. 2, 1962 - Premier Fidel Castro (pictured with Black Muslim spokesman Malcolm X in 1960) voiced his approval today of the United...

Oct. 2, 1962 - James H. Meredith (pictured) turned today to the delicate and perhaps impossible task of gaining personal acceptance on...

Oct. 2, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller (pictured) termed the Mississippi situation “deplorable” today. He said it was “sad”...