Oct 20, 2021Racial Turmoil in McComb, MississippiOct. 20, 1961 - A Negro student revolt has pushed the city of McComb, a segregationist stronghold in southwestern Mississippi, to the...
Oct 20, 2021Martin Luther King Will Not Appear in Preminger FilmOct. 20, 1961 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said today that he would not portray a Georgia senator in the film version of the novel...
Oct 17, 2021Five NBA Players, Denied Meal Service at Kentucky Hotel, Sit Out Exhibition GameOct. 17, 1961 - Bill Russell (right) and four other Negro players on the Boston Celtics and two on the St. Louis Hawks left Lexington,...
Oct 17, 2021Alabama Klansman Sentenced for Flogging White CoupleOct. 17, 1961 - In Talladega, Alabama today, a Ku Klux Klansman was sentenced to eight years imprisonment for dragging a white man and...