Program to Increase Negro Voter Registration in South Announced in Atlanta
Mar. 28, 1962 - A program to increase Negro voter registration throughout the South was announced in Atlanta today. Major civil rights...
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- Mar 20, 2022
Attorney General Kennedy Gets Tough on Police Brutality
Mar. 20, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked Congress today to toughen Federal statutes against police brutality. He proposed...
- Mar 12, 2022
Constitutional Amendment Proposed to Outlaw Poll Tax
Mar. 12, 1962 - Mike Mansfield (pictured center), the Senate majority leader, said today that he would call up for debate this week a...
- Mar 11, 2022
Mrs. Coretta Scott King Speaks at Harlem Church
Mar. 11, 1962 - Mrs. Coretta Scott King urged today that Negroes “at the bottom of the economic scale” be given “better than equal...
- Mar 10, 2022
Phillies Move After Negro Players Denied Accomodations
Mar. 10, 1962 - Because local hotels in Clearwater, Fla., refused to accommodate five Negro ballplayers, the Philadelphia Phillies moved...
- Feb 25, 2022
Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson Speaks at NAACP Conference in Mississippi
Feb. 25, 1962 - Floyd Patterson (pictured right with Eleanor Roosevelt), the heavyweight boxing champion, said today that he felt guilty...
- Feb 14, 2022
Whites in Macon, Georgia Try to Offset Negro Bus Boycott
Feb. 14, 1962 - White persons living in Macon, Ga., who had done little bus riding in recent years started using city buses today in an...
- Feb 6, 2022
Stores in Memphis Desegregate Lunch Counters and Dining Rooms
Feb. 6, 1962 - Twenty-nine Memphis stores desegregated dining rooms and lunch counters today. The move came quietly after meetings...
- Feb 1, 2022
Martin Luther King Announces "Recruiting Tour" to Fight Segregation
Feb. 1, 1962 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, announced today a “recruiting tour”...
- Jan 28, 2022
Segregation Over at Most Southern Bus and Railroad Terminals
Jan. 28, 1962 - Official segregation has virtually ended at bus and railroad terminals in the South, Justice Department sources reported...
- Jan 24, 2022
James Farmer, Civil Rights Leader, Convicted of Breach of Peace in Mississippi
Jan. 24, 1962 - The national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was convicted of breach of peace in Jackson, Miss., today...
- Jan 23, 2022
Video: Debate between Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin
Jan. 23, 1962 - Here is video of a debate between Black Muslim Minister Malcolm X (right) and Bayard Rustin (left) of the Southern...
- Jan 23, 2022
Lunch Counters in Columbus, Georgia Desegregated with No Incidents
Jan. 23, 1962 - Lunch counters in Columbus, Ga., were quietly desegregated today. The city of 118,000, situated near Fort Benning, the...
- Jan 20, 2022
NAACP Lawyer Talks Civil Rights Strategy for '62
Jan. 20, 1962 - Legal activity for civil rights this year will include an all-out desegregation drive in Mississippi, more numerous...
- Jan 17, 2022
Three Negro Churches Bombed in Birmingham
Jan. 16, 1962 - Three Negro churches in Birmingham, Ala., were bombed tonight. Two were damaged severely. Two of the bombings took place...
- Jan 15, 2022
Controversy over Admissions Policy of Exclusive Cosmos Club
Jan. 15, 1962 - The Cosmos Club, by a voice vote, overwhelmingly put itself on record today as opposed to racial, color, or religious...
- Jan 15, 2022
Congressman Lindsay Presses Kennedy on Civil Rights
Jan. 15, 1962 - Representative John V. Lindsay, Manhattan Republican, today wrote a letter to President Kennedy deploring “abandonment of...
- Jan 15, 2022
President Kennedy Addresses Delays on Negro Civil Rights
Jan. 15, 1962 - President Kennedy said today that he would act to advance Negro rights “in a way which will maintain a consensus” of...
- Jan 14, 2022
New Hearing on Negro's Right to Attend University of Mississippi
Jan. 14, 1962 - Federal Judge Sidney Mize is scheduled to open a final hearing tomorrow on Mississippi’s first integration lawsuit in the...
- Jan 6, 2022
In Georgia, a 15-year-old Negro boy, Preston Cobb Jr., Faces Death Sentence
Jan. 6, 1962 - In Georgia’s Reidsville Prison, a 15-year-old Negro boy, Preston Cobb Jr., is under sentence of death for killing a...
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