MLK Predicts More Demonstrations
Mar. 15, 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King predicted yesterday there would be enormous civil rights demonstrations throughout the country in...
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- Dec 29, 2023
Time Magazine Names Dr. Martin Luther King Man of the Year
Dec. 29, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader who became a symbol of the Negro revolution in 1963, has been...
- Dec 3, 2023
President Johnson Meets with Dr. King
Dec. 3, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King spent 50 minutes at the White House today with President Johnson and said upon leaving:...
- Dec 2, 2023
President Johnson Reinforces Commitment to Predecessor’s Civil Rights Program
Dec. 2, 1963 - President Johnson reinforced today his commitment to President Kennedy’s civil rights program. After meeting with...
- Nov 19, 2023
Eisenhower Speaks at Gettysburg
Nov. 19, 1963 - The national cemetery dedicated in Gettysburg, Pa., 100 years ago by Abraham Lincoln was rededicated today by former...
- Nov 10, 2023
Negroes Appearing More on Television
Nov. 10, 1963 - The vigorous campaign to put more Negroes in front of television cameras has produced impressive results in recent...
- Nov 5, 2023
Staunch Segregationist Elected to Replace Governor Barnett in Mississippi
Nov. 5, 1963 - Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson Jr. (pictured), who has pledged to continue Governor Ross Barnett’s massive resistance to...
- Nov 5, 2023
Auburn University Ordered to Admit Negro Student
Nov. 5, 1963 - A Federal judge ordered Auburn University today to admit its first Negro student in January and to accept students in the...
- Oct 23, 2023
Dr. Bunche Criticizes Racists — Black and White
Oct. 23, 1963 - Dr. Ralph Bunche (pictured at the March on Washington in August), U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs, was...
- Oct 14, 2023
Dr. King Threatens More Birmingham Demonstrations
Oct. 14, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, bitterly denouncing Birmingham’s rejection of his desegregation demands, threatened tonight to...
- Oct 7, 2023
Alabama State Troopers Rough Up Negroes Attempting to Register to Vote
Oct. 7, 1963 - Alabama state troopers and local officers in Selma, shouting and waving nightsticks, roughed up two Negroes and two news...
- Aug 31, 2023
MLK: We Must Double Negro Vote
Aug. 31, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King (pictured left on Wednesday) said today that the leaders of the civil rights movement would now...
- Aug 28, 2023
Dr. King Shines at Washington March
Aug. 28, 1963 - At today’s massive march on Washington, there was one man who touched and ignited the vast multitude most deeply: the...
- Aug 28, 2023
🚨Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate for Civil Rights in D.C.
Aug. 28, 1963 - More than 200,000 Americans, most of them Negroes but many of them white, demonstrated in Washington, D.C. today for a...
- Aug 14, 2023
NYPD Chooses First Negro to Study at FBI National Academy
Aug. 14, 1963 - The New York Police Department has chosen Lieutenant Lloyd Sealy (center in 1959) as the first Negro on the New York...
- Aug 11, 2023
James Hood Withdraws from University of Alabama
Aug. 11, 1963 - James Hood (left), a Negro student facing imminent expulsion from the University of Alabama for having criticized its...
- Aug 1, 2023
President Kennedy Comments on Civil Rights Demonstrations
Aug. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy welcomed today an apparent slackening in Negro demonstrations in some areas. However, he warned that the...
- Jul 26, 2023
MLK: Civil Rights Movement Employs No Communists
July 26, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today a 39-year-old Negro linked by Congressional committees to the Communist movement had...
- Jul 25, 2023
JFK: No Evidence MLK Is Communist or Communist-Controlled
July 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Justice Department had no evidence that Dr. Martin Luther King and...
- Jul 15, 2023
Wallace Attacks Kennedy Civil Rights Program
July 15, 1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace challenged the Kennedy Administration today to submit its civil rights legislation to a...
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