Mar 28, 2022Program to Increase Negro Voter Registration in South Announced in AtlantaMar. 28, 1962 - A program to increase Negro voter registration throughout the South was announced in Atlanta today. Major civil rights...
Mar 20, 2022Attorney General Kennedy Gets Tough on Police BrutalityMar. 20, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked Congress today to toughen Federal statutes against police brutality. He proposed...
Mar 12, 2022Constitutional Amendment Proposed to Outlaw Poll TaxMar. 12, 1962 - Mike Mansfield (pictured center), the Senate majority leader, said today that he would call up for debate this week a...
Mar 11, 2022Mrs. Coretta Scott King Speaks at Harlem ChurchMar. 11, 1962 - Mrs. Coretta Scott King urged today that Negroes “at the bottom of the economic scale” be given “better than equal...