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January 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr, born in Atlanta, Georgia
March 21 - A.D. Williams dies
August 31 - Eldridge Cleaver born
August 3 - Jesse Owens wins Olympic gold
August 8 - Johnny Dodds, prominent jazz singer, dies
October 9 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt promises equal opportunities in military
May 1 - A. Philip Randolph calls for one hundred thousand blacks to march on Washington, D.C.
May 18 - King’s grandmother dies; family moves
June 25 - President Roosevelt establishes the Fair Employment Practices Committee
June 20 - Detroit race riot erupts at Belle Isle amusement park
April 17 - King delivers the speech “The Negro and the Constitution”
April 25 - UNCF is created as the first minority higher education assistance organization
June 12 - Smith v. Allright
September 20 - King begins freshman year
October 18 - Paul Robeson wins performing arts honor
April 1 - The Supreme Court declares the white primary in Georgia unconstitutional
June 3 - The U.S. Supreme Courts rules that segregation in interstate bus travel is unconstitutional
December 5 - Truman establishes the President’s Committee on Civil Rights
October 29 - Committee on Civil Rights issues report
February 25 - King is ordained at Ebenezer Baptist Church
June 8 - King graduates from Morehouse College with a Bachelor of Arts degree
July 14 - Delegates walk out of the Democratic National Convention
July 26 - Truman desegregates U.S. Armed Forces
September 14 - King enters Crozer Theological Seminary
May 16 - Briggs v. Elliot
June 5 - The U.S. Supreme court declares racially segregated facilities for graduate schools unconstitutional
August 24 - Edith Sampson becomes first black delegate to UN
May 8 - King receives Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer Theological Seminary
July 12 - Riot erupts against Black residents in Cicero, Illinois
September 13 - King enters Boston University’s School of Theology
December 3 - Truman creates committee for federal nondiscrimination policy
January 1 - Coretta and Martin meet in Boston
March 16 - King preaches at Ebenezer’s 65th anniversary service
June 27 - Congress passes the Immigration and Naturalization Act
November 2 - King receives Alumni Achievement Award from Crozer Theological Seminary
November 10 - Supreme Court upholds ban on segregation on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
December 9 - U.S. Supreme Court begins hearing school desegregation cases
February 25 - Harold DeWolf becomes new academic advisor
June 18 - King and Coretta Scott are married
December 31 - Hulan E. Jack elected first black borough president
January 24 - King delivers trial sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
February 28 - King delivers trial sermon at Second Baptist Church
April 14 - King accepts call to Dexter’s pastorate
May 2 - King delivers his first sermon as Dexter Avenue Baptist Church’s new minister
May 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court declares racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional
June 10 - Southern governors vow to defy the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling
July 11 - First White Citizen’s Council is created
August 7 - Charles Mahoney confirmed as delegate to the UN
September 7 - Desegregation begins in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
October 30 - Army units fully integrated
October 31 - King installed as pastor of Dexter
December 11 - Bunche begins first African-American Nobel Prize recipient
January 23 - King denounces apathy among church leaders in Birmingham NAACP talk
March 2 - Claudette Colvin arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to move to the back of the bus
March 20 - King delivers 68th anniversary sermon at Ebenezer
May 24 - The Little Rock School Board votes on a proposed timeline for desegregating public schools
June 5 - King receives a doctorate in Systematic Theology from Boston University
July 1 - Benjamin Mays writes King
July 14 - Brown v. Board Ruling Impacts Bus Segregation
July 17 - King delivers the sermon “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”
July 24 - King preaches at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
August 26 - King elected to executive committee of Montgomery NAACP chapter
August 28 - Emmett Till murdered
September 21 - Emmett Till’s murderers are identified in court
October 15 - Montgomery girl refuses to yield seat
November 7 - Supreme Court that segregation in public recreational facilities is unconstitutional
November 17 - Yolanda Denise King is born.
December 1 - Rosa Parks is arrested
December 2 - Women’s Political Council calls for bus boycott in Montgomery
December 3 - Boycott leaflets distributed
December 4 - Advertiser reports boycott on front page
December 5 - Montgomery Improvement Association takes shape to coordinate boycott
December 6 - King outlines MIA’s demands
December 7 - MIA board assembles to discuss boycott
December 8 - MIA executive board meets with city officials
December 9 - Bus company cuts service to black districts
December 10 - MIA releases statement showing legality of proposals
December 11 - Dexter has seventy-eighth anniversary service
December 12 - Leaders announce carpool; boycott compared to Gandhian movement
December 13 - NAACP to take up Rosa Parks case
December 14 - Montgomery cab company issues resolution on fares
December 15 - City officials enforce 45 cent minimum fare
December 16 - VP of National City Lines meets with Montgomery officials
December 17 - King and other MIA representatives meet with white leaders
December 18 - King preaches at Dexter
December 19 - Contentious meeting culminates with King’s protest
December 21 - King thanks guest speaker
December 22 - MIA refuses to back down
December 23 - Alabama Citizens Council urges bus ridership
December 24 - Black Americans play on newly desegregated golf courses
December 25 - Montgomery ministers place ad explaining boycott
December 26 - MIA meeting held to discuss progress of boycott
December 27 - King and French request Chicago civic leaders to lobby National City Lines
December 29 - MIA holds mass meeting
December 30 - Montgomery mayor urges citizens to ride buses
January 1 - King delivers sermon at Dexter
January 2 - MIA holds mass meeting at Holt
January 3 - Montgomery bus company recommends doubling of fares
January 4 - FBI special agent sends report
January 5 - MIA holds mass meeting at St. John
January 6 - Thousands attend Citizens Council meeting
January 8 - King delivers sermon at Ebenezer
January 9 - MIA and city leaders meet for two hours
January 10 - Segregation signs removed from Alabama terminals
January 11 - Police Commissioner Sellers initiates investigation of bus boycott
January 12 - MIA board prolongs boycott indefinitely
January 14 - Reporter interviews King
January 15 - King preaches at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
January 16 - King receives threats
January 17 - Sellers claims intimidation keeping blacks from riding buses
January 18 - Proposal for reserved racial sections fails in bi-racial committee
January 19 - Article claims boycott seeks only improved segregation
January 21 - King announces that the Montgomery bus boycott is still on
January 22 - MIA denies report that boycott has ended
January 23 - King receives vote of confidence from MIA
January 24 - Mayor urges whites to stop driving black workers
January 26 - King arrested and jailed for speeding
January 27 - King receives a threatening phone call
January 28 - King fined for speeding
January 29 - King speaks at Dexter
January 30 - King’s house is bombed
January 31 - King and four other leaders meet with Alabama governor.
February 1 - Gray files petition for Browder v. Gayle case
February 2 - Reese withdraws from suit
February 5 - King preaches at Dexter
February 6 - Students riot at the University of Alabama
February 7 - King responds to Montgomery Advertiser report
February 8 - MIA executive board meets
February 9 - Meany urges FBI investigation in Alabama
February 10 - Eleven thousand attend Citizens’ Council rally
February 11 - King arrives in Chicago
February 12 - King preaches in Chicago
February 13 - Judge directs grand jury to determine if boycott is legal
February 14 - King predicts several MIA leaders will be indicted
February 16 - King returns to Montgomery
February 18 - Grand Jury charges Gary with unlawful appearance
February 19 - King speaks at Fisk University
February 20 - Proposal does not meet MIA demands
February 21 - King is arrested for violating anti-boycotting laws in Montgomery, Alabama
February 21 - Montgomery grand jury indicts King
February 22 - Boycott leaders indicted and released on bail
February 23 - King pleads guilty to speeding charge
February 24 - MIA leaders plead not guilty to boycott-related charges
February 26 - Boycott continues
February 29 - MIA leaders forego trial by jury
March 1 - Gray files bill of demurrer in Montgomery Circuit Court
March 5 - King speaks at MIA meeting
March 6 - Alabama legislators introduce racial segregation bills
March 7 - King meets with Rustin and Worthy
March 8 - Gray and Langford amend Browder v. Gayle
March 11 - Kelly Miller Smith is Youth Day speaker
March 12 - Members of Congress issue “Southern Manifesto”
March 13 - Alabama governor urges boycott settlement
March 14 - Eisenhower calls for bi-racial meeting of southern leaders
March 18 - King preaches “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious” at Dexter
March 19 - King writes a letter of thanks to W. E. B. Du Bois
March 20 - Prosecution continues case against King.
March 21 - Eisenhower calls for moderation on both sides
March 22 - King is convicted of leading an illegal boycott
March 23 - Appeal process for King begins
March 25 - King addresses congregation of 2,500 at New York rally
March 27 - Alabama Attorney General files motion to dismiss Browder suit
March 28 - National Deliverance Day of Prayer supports MIA
March 29 - Louisville Defender publishes King sermon
March 30 - King announces block-by-block voter registration campaign
April 1 - King preaches at Dexter
April 2 - Montgomery commissioners deny request for black-operated bus company
April 3 - Montgomery buses reduce service
April 11 - Chicago NAACP sponsors rally
April 14 - King criticizes Faulkner’s call for gradualism in the South.
April 16 - King delivers opening remarks at MIA meeting
April 17 - Black citizens in Capetown launch boycott
April 20 - King speaks at Detroit’s Bethel AME Church
April 22 - King gives Youth Day sermon
April 23 - Supreme Court affirms appellate court’s ruling on bus segregation
April 24 - Montgomery mayor refuses to enforce Supreme Court’s ruling
April 25 - National City Lines announces support for drivers
April 26 - Unanimous vote to continue boycott
April 27 - Meeting fails to produce solution
April 29 - King preaches the Sunday service at Dexter
April 30 - King delivers opening remarks at MIA mass meeting
May 1 - City officials ask court for injunction against bus company
May 2 - Attorneys request dismissal of city’s bill of complaint against the bus company.
May 9 - Circuit Court Judge rules segregation laws constitutional
May 10 - MIA assesses community interest in MIA bank
May 11 - District Court hears Browder v. Gayle case
May 12 - District Court hearing of Browder case ends
May 13 - King delivers Mother’s Day sermon at Dexter
May 14 - Eleanor Roosevelt writes about meeting Rosa Parks
May 15 - King receives recognition from Stiles Hall University YMCA
May 16 - Boycott continues
May 17 - King speaks at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund banquet
May 18 - Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice honors King
May 19 - King announces plans for an African-American bank.
May 20 - King gives Youth Emphasis Day sermon in Pittsburgh.
May 24 - Twenty thousand attend civil rights rally at Madison Square Garden
May 26 - Parks addresses National Council of Negro Women
May 27 - King preaches at Ebenezer
May 28 - Florida A&M students launch bus boycott
May 29 - Florida A&M bus boycott spreads to Tallahassee
May 30 - Bus boycott in Tallahassee gains momentum
May 31 - King offers “Recommendations” at MIA meeting
June 1 - Alabama bans NAACP
June 4 - Tallahassee City Transit suspends service in black districts
June 5 - U.S. District Court panel rules on Browder v Gayle case
June 6 - Kings and Abernathys leave Montgomery for vacation
June 10 - King preaches in Los Angeles
June 11 - NAACP announces plans to challenge injunction
June 12 - MIA denies charges by Fields
June 17 - Bell Street congregation votes to remove Fields
June 18 - Fields retracts allegations about MIA
June 19 - The U.S. District Court rules that segregation on Montgomery buses violates the 14th Amendment
June 21 - City commission to appeal to Supreme Court
June 23 - MIA releases first issue of newsletter
June 26 - King proposes student boycott
June 27 - King addresses forty-seventh annual NAACP convention
June 28 - Alabama asks Supreme Court to reverse district court’s decision
June 29 - Bus company lays off 21 drivers
June 30 - King returns from San Francisco
July 1 - King recieves Honorable Merit Award
July 3 - King receives citation
July 8 - President of Virginia Union University speaks at Dexter
July 11 - White policeman refuses passage to King
July 12 - Attorney General subpoenas King
July 17 - King attends workshop at Tuskegee Institute
July 18 - King attends workshop at Tuskegee Institute
July 20 - King addresses an NAACP mass meeting in Washington, D.C.
July 22 - King is guest speaker at New Hope Baptist Church
July 23 - King speaks at the American Baptist Assembly
July 25 - Judge fines Alabama NAACP
July 26 - MIA board agrees to wait for full Supreme Court to convene on Browder case
August 3 - King’s speech published in major magazine
August 5 - King speaks in Ontario
August 7 - King speaks in Cleveland
August 11 - King testifies before Democratic National Convention then speaks in Buffalo and receives award
August 12 - Jack speaks about Gandhi at Dexter
August 13 - Alabama Supreme Court denies Alabama NAACP’s request
August 23 - King addresses ACHR
August 25 - The home of Robert Graetz is bombed
August 27 - Black Montgomery civic organizations ask Eisenhower for federal investigation
August 28 - King preaches in Birmingham
August 29 - Boycott continues
August 30 - Riots after enrollment of African-American high school children in Texas
August 31 - Boycott continues.
September 7 - King attends National Baptist Convention
September 8 - Insurance policies on 17 station wagons canceled
September 9 - King preaches in Denver
September 12 - King accepts award
September 13 - King presides at MIA executive board meeting.
September 17 - King speaks at mass meeting
September 18 - MIA executive board agrees to seek federal protection
September 25 - MIA committee meets to consider how to reconcile with white community
September 27 - King denied service in Atlanta restaurant
September 30 - Coretta Scott King gives a concert at Dexter.
October 1 - MIA holds mass meeting including training in nonviolence
October 5 - King addresses NAACP convention
October 15 - King speaks in Durham, North Carolina.
October 16 - King travels to New York
October 17 - Boycott continues
October 18 - King gives speech in Pennsylvania
October 19 - Coretta Scott King gives a concert
October 20 - Tallahassee citizens convicted for aiding boycotters
October 21 - King preaches at Dexter
October 28 - King delivers speech in Boston
October 29 - King announces boycott will continue due to possible court injunction against carpool
November 1 - Boycott leaders petition District Court to block injunction
November 2 - MIA petition refused
November 4 - King preaches at Dexter
November 5 - Mass meeting held at First Baptist Church
November 14 - Carpool injunction upheld, boycott voted to continue until court mandate arrives
November 15 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that bus segregation laws are unconstitutional
November 17 - Marshall asks Justice Hugo Black to expedite Supreme Court order
November 18 - King delivers Men’s Day sermon
November 19 - King speaks at MIA mass meeting.
December 1 - Liberation publishes “We Are Still Walking”
December 3 - King delivers opening address at week-long MIA institute
December 4 - King speaks
December 5 - King presides over MIA seminar on anniversary of boycott
December 6 - King attends Alpha Phi Alpha executive board meeting
December 7 - King recieves achievement award
December 9 - King presides at closing meeting of MIA’s Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change
December 10 - US Attorney General calls for “voluntary compliance” with Supreme Court’s ruling
December 11 - King speaks for the United Negro College Fund
December 15 - King speaks at meeting of the National Committee for Rural Schools in New York
December 17 - Supreme Court rejects final appeal
December 19 - Leaflets urge black community to rebel against leaders
December 20 - Bus boycott comes to end
December 21 - Montgomery City Lines resumes full bus service
December 23 - King’s home attacked in the aftermath of bus desegregation
December 24 - Black woman beaten at bus stop
December 25 - Shuttlesworth’s home bombed
December 26 - Snipers target buses in Montgomery, Birmingham attempts to desegregate buses
December 28 - Pregnant black resident shot while riding bus
December 29 - City halts after-dark bus service after shootings
December 31 - Sniper attacks continue
January 10 - Racists bomb black churches in Montgomery
January 11 - SCLC is founded
January 23 - Black resident of Montgomery forced by Klan to jump to his death from bridge
February 14 - King is elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
February 18 - King is honored on Time Magazine cover
March 6 - King celebrates Ghana’s independence from Great Britain
April 7 - King Jr.’s sermon “The Birth of a New Nation” delivered in Montgomery, Alabama
May 17 - King addresses crowd of twenty thousand at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C.
July 18 - King delivers opening prayer for that evening’s revival during Billy Graham’s ten-week evangelical
August 29 - Civil Rights Act of 1957 signed
September 4 - Arkansas National Guard prevents black students from entering school
September 23 - Little Rock nine enter high school
September 25 - King applauds President Eisenhower’s decision to send federal troops to Little Rock
October 2 - King delivers speech at workers’ conference
October 10 - King speaks for United Negro College Fund
October 23 - Martin Luther King III is born
October 27 - King welcomed home by MIA
November 7 - King preaches “Loving Your Enemies”
December 27 - King honored by Cotillion Society
December 29 - King preaches in Philadelphia
January 28 - Congressman Powell charges President Eisenhower with indifference to civil rights
May 27 - Ernest Green becomes the first African-American to graduate from Little Rock Central High School
June 23 - King meets with Eisenhower
June 29 - Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth’s Bethel Street Baptist Church is bombed
July 19 - Lunch counter sit-ins begin in Wichita, Kansas
September 3 - King is arrested for loitering
September 5 - King is convicted of disobeying a police order
September 17 - King’s first book is published
September 20 - King is stabbed in Harlem department store
October 3 - King is released from hospital after near-fatal stabbing
October 14 - D.C. Bar Association accepts black members
October 24 - King returns to Montgomery to continue recuperation from stabbing
October 25 - Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington
January 18 - King delivers the sermon “The Blinding Power of Sin”
February 3 - King goes to India
February 9 - King arrives in Bombay, India
February 10 - King party has dinner with Prime Minister Nehru
February 22 - King visits Cape Cormorin, India
March 1 - In India, King visits Sabarmati Ashram
March 10 - King party departs from India to visit Jerusalem and Cairo
March 29 - King preaches at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
May 19 - Public access to the Atlanta Public Library is integrated
July 16 - ABC-TV airs “The Hate that Hate Produced”
July 22 - King speaks at the First Southwide Institute for Nonviolent Resistance to Segregation
October 8 - King preaches at D.C. church’s Men’s Day
October 11 - King meets with SCLC leaders in preparation for conference
October 12 - King speaks at Louisiana rally
December 6 - King presides over institute on nonviolence
December 8 - King convenes meeting, delivers sermon at church rally
December 28 - King and Wilkins plans for voter registration campaign
January 11 - Georgia Governor withholds education funding
February 1 - The Greensboro Four sit at a Woolworth’s lunch counter reserved for white customers
February 9 - Bomb explodes at home of Carlotta Walls
February 17 - King is arrested and charged with falsifying his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income tax returns
February 27 - 82 protesters arrested in protest against segregated Nashville stores
February 29 - Alabama Governor warns students at state capitol protest
March 1 - Students stage protest against segregation at Montgomery capitol building
March 2 - 60 students arrested at Nashville bus station protest
March 6 - 800 African-Americans march toward Alabama state capitol building
March 15 - Committee on Appeal for Human Rights holds first sit-in
March 16 - San Antonio integrates lunch counters
March 30 - Marshall police break up lunch counter sit-in
April 15 - King speaks at founding conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
April 19 - The home of African-American lawyer and city councilman Z. Alexander Looby is bombed
April 24 - A major race riot develops when black citizens visit the whites-only section of Biloxi Beach
April 25 - Tennessee’s federal court removes restrictions on black voting
April 26 - Reverend Theodore Roosevelt Thompson stages a one-man sit-in in Dallas
May 6 - President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960
May 10 - Nashville stores desegregate lunch counters
May 28 - King is acquitted of tax evasion by an all-white jury in Montgomery, Alabama
June 9 - King and Randolph announce plans for the March on the Conventions Movement for Freedom Now
June 23 - King discusses civil rights with presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy
July 7 - King’s remarks at the Democratic Party Platform Committee are read by L. B. Thompson
July 10 - Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph lead protest against Democratic party in Los Angeles
July 25 - Greensboro lunch counters desegregated
July 28 - King advocates political nonpartisanship
July 31 - Elijah Muhammad calls for establishment of all-black state
October 17 - Woolworth, Grant, Kress, and McCrory-McClellan integrate lunch counters
October 19 - King is arrested at Atlanta sit-in
October 26 - Robert Kennedy calls Georgia Governor S. Ernest Vandiver and Judge Oscar Mitchell seeking King’s re
October 27 - King is released from Reidsville, Georgia, state prison
November 1 - King applauds Senator Kennedy for support
November 8 - Kennedy wins close Presidential election, receiving strong support from black voters
November 14 - Ruby Nell Bridges becomes first African-American child to attend William Frantz Elementary School
November 16 - New Orleans demonstrators protest against school integration
December 5 - U.S. Supreme Court rules segregation in interstate bus terminal restaurants unconstitutional
December 13 - English Avenue Elementary School bombed
December 30 - King speaks on sit-ins in Chattanooga
January 3 - African-American Adam Clayton, Jr. becomes chairman of House Education and Labor Committee
January 9 - Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes integrate University of Georgia
January 12 - President Eisenhower says discrimination is morally wrong
January 28 - Malcolm X meets with Ku Klux Klan regarding a separate nation for black Muslims
January 30 - King’s third child, Dexter Scott, is born
February 6 - Rock Hill demonstrators arrested; decide to remain in jail
February 11 - Robert Clifton Weaver sworn in as director of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency
March 6 - President John F. Kennedy establishes President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
March 7 - Atlanta city officials agree to integrate lunch counters
March 28 - Police clear out 100 black demonstrators from Jacson courthouse
May 4 - The Freedom Riders leave Washington, D.C. to challenge segregated travel facilities in the South
May 14 - Bus carrying Freedom Riders is fire-bombed on Mother’s Day near Anniston, Alabama
May 17 - Nashville Freedom Riders arrested while waiting for buses in Birmingham
May 20 - Freedom Riders beaten in Montgomery
May 21 - After the first group of Freedom Riders is assaulted in Alabama, King addresses a mass rally in Mont
May 24 - Freedom Riders leave Montgomery, arrive in Jackson and arrested
June 16 - Civil rights organizers meet with U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy
August 9 - James Parsons appointed to federal bench
September 22 - Segregation is banned at interstate travel facilities
December 15 - King arrives in Albany in response to telegram
December 16 - King is arrested with more than 700 Albany protesters
December 18 - Albany city leaders negotiate settlement
January 19 - Protestors force Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to temporarily shut down
January 23 - CORE launches sit-ins against segregation at University of Chicago campus
March 16 - Four students stage sit-in at office of U.S. Attornery General Robert Kennedy
March 26 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that Tennnessee must abide by the U.S. Constitution
March 27 - King writes to Robert Kennedy about Greenville, Miss.
April 3 - Department of Defense orders that military reserve units integrate
April 21 - Agreement is made to end discriminatory hiring practices in Augusta, Georgia supermarkets
July 10 - Ralph Abernathy and King are found guilty of “parading without a license”
July 12 - King leaves jail after his fine is paid by unidentified person
July 21 - King announces the continuation of demonstrations in Albany
July 23 - Jackie Robinson is inducted into the Hall of Fame
July 25 - King calls for Day of Penance to atone for violence
July 27 - Albany city hall prayer vigil ends in arrest
August 10 - King leaves jail in Albany, Georgia, and agrees to halt demonstrations
August 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr. released from jail in Albany
August 29 - Goode becomes first black news correspondent
September 10 - James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi
September 11 - Thurgood Marshall is confirmed by Senate for US Court of Appeals
September 26 - James Meredith’s is denied entry into the University of Mississippi
January 1 - King addresses Emancipation Day Rally in Oakland
January 2 - King meets with local Oakland ministers
January 3 - King proposes Dorchester planning meeting
January 4 - King addresses Dallas rally
January 6 - King preaches sermon at Ebenezer
January 8 - King participates in an Emancipation Proclamation celebration in Chicago with Duke Ellington
January 9 - King in Atlanta awaiting arrival of Dorchester participants
January 10 - Day 1 of Dorchester planning meetings
January 11 - Day 2 of Dorchester planning meetings
January 12 - King returns to Atlanta following Dorchester meeting
January 13 - Federal troops arrive in Birmingham
January 14 - A coalition of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish delegates meets in Chicago
January 16 - King addresses local press during conference
January 17 - King speaks at NCRR and later that evening in a Newark temple
January 18 - King speaks at Springfield, NJ temple
January 19 - King talks with the Kennedys
January 20 - King preaches at EBC
January 23 - SCLC holds executive staff meeting in Atlanta
January 24 - King criticizes Kennedy and goes to Birmingham
January 26 - King appears on talk show in Chicago
January 27 - King preaches at Chicago church
January 28 - Harvey Gantt becomes first black student at Clemson University
January 29 - King presides at Ebenezer church meeting
January 31 - James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time” published
February 3 - King delivers “The Problem of Unanswered Prayer” at Ebenezer
February 4 - King arrives in Boston
February 5 - King speaks at Groton School and the American Jewish Congress
February 6 - King meets with Ford Foundation representative Heald in New York and rejects visit to White House
February 8 - King speaks at fund raising dinner
February 9 - King speaks at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
February 10 - King speaks at two New York churches
February 11 - King addresses Lexington Civil Rights Committee in Massachusetts
February 12 - King in Jamaica
February 15 - King appeals for staple goods for Mississippi Delta natives
February 25 - U.S. Supreme Court upholds right to hold public demonstrations in Edwards v. South Carolina
February 26 - King has appearances in New York
February 28 - President Kennedy proposes civil rights reforms to Congress
March 3 - King preaches at Ebenezer, New Pilgrim Baptist
March 4 - King meets with Western Electric Company representative and speaks at West Hunter Street Baptist Chu
March 6 - King participates in Operation Bread Basket protest
March 7 - King criticizes Albany government, attends LA WCLC installation rally
March 8 - King joins WCLC discussion, and attends rally
March 10 - King preaches at Ebenezer
March 13 - King speaks at Albion College in Michigan
March 14 - King speaks in Detroit and later in Windsor, Ontario
March 17 - Ebenezer celebrates 76th anniversary
March 24 - King addresses Ford Hall Forum in Boston
March 25 - King delivers speech at University of Virginia
March 26 - King speaks in Danville, Va. and later attends Philadelphia Quaker event
March 27 - King arrives in Atlanta to prepare for the birth of his fourth child. 
March 28 - Bernice Albertine King is born
March 29 - King returns to Birmingham
March 31 - King preaches at Ebenezer
April 2 - Albert Boutwell wins runoff election over “Bull” Connor for Birmingham mayor
April 3 - SCLC and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights launch Birmingham protest campaign
April 4 - King gives a press conference to Birmingham residents and and speaks at the evening mass meeting.
April 5 - King speaks at mass meeting
April 6 - Civil rights demonstrators stage a prayer protest in Birmingham
April 7 - Dozens of marchers are arrested in Birmingham
April 8 - King asks local pastors for support
April 9 - King asks local professionals for support
April 10 - King declares marching plans, gets injunction against him
April 11 - King gives press conference with Shuttlesworth
April 12 - King and Abernathy are arrested in Birmingham, Alabama
April 13 - King placed in solitary confinement
April 14 - A.D. King arrested after leading marchers to city jail
April 15 - President Kennedy calls Coretta Scott King expressing concern for her jailed husband
April 16 - King writes letter of response while in Birmingham jail
April 17 - King continues with his letter
April 18 - Coretta King, Juanita Abernathy visit jail
April 20 - King and Abernathy are released
April 21 - King delivers sermon at Ebenezer
April 22 - King appears in Birmingham court
April 24 - King gets youth volunteers
April 25 - King meets with local white ministers
April 26 - King found guilty, speaks at mass meeting
April 28 - King preaches at First Baptist Church in Little Rock
April 29 - Racial segregation in courtrooms is declared unconstitutional
April 30 - King attends board meeting in Memphis
May 1 - King returns to Birmingham for new demonstrations
May 2 - The Children’s Crusade begins in Birmingham
May 3 - Hundreds of black children gather at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church for second march
May 4 - U.S. Justice Department official Burke Marshall mediates between SCLC and Birmingham city officials
May 5 - King delivers Birmingham version of ‘’Paul’s Letter to American Christians’’ at EBC
May 6 - King meets with Marshall, addresses three mass meetings, and visits jailed student protesters.
May 7 - King gives a press conference in Birmingham, meets with bussinessmen.
May 8 - Protest leaders suspend mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama
May 9 - King criticizes lack of Federal intervention, reaches agreement on 3 movement demands
May 10 - An agreement between the Birmingham Senior Citizens Council and SCLC leadership is announced
May 11 - Two bombs explode in Birmingham after tentative desegregation settlement is reached
May 12 - King speaks at Mother’s Day EBC, New Pilgrim Baptist Church
May 13 - King urges blacks to stay nonviolent
May 14 - King goes to Cleveland
May 15 - Alabama court delays King’s jail sentence
May 16 - King found guilty of violating city injunction
May 17 - King announces B’ham threats of violence, flies to Chicago to give a speech
May 18 - King stays in Chicago
May 19 - King speaks at First Methodist Church in Evanston
May 20 - The U.S. Supreme court finds segregation ordinances unconstitutional, making sit-ins legal
May 22 - Hundreds of students greet King at St. James Baptist Church
May 24 - King goes to LA
May 25 - King stays in LA
May 26 - King addresses LA UAW
May 27 - King speaks at Chicago benefit for SCLC and meets Mayor Daley.
May 28 - King goes to St Louis
May 29 - King goes to Louisville
May 30 - King goes to Charlotte, requests audience with Kennedys
June 1 - Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes first black sudents to graduate from University of Georgia
June 2 - King delivers “The Religion Of The Dawn” at EBC
June 3 - King gives commencement at Greenboro
June 4 - King requests inquiry into Atlantic Steel hiring practices
June 5 - King flies to Fort Wayne and New York
June 6 - King meets with Levison
June 7 - King is in Birmingham
June 9 - King speaks at West Hunter Baptist Church
June 10 - King criticizes Kennedy, talks over phone with advisors
June 11 - President Kennedy announces new civil rights proposal
June 12 - Assassin kills NAACP leader Medgar Evers
June 13 - King turns down Kennedy invitation
June 14 - King attends dinner
June 15 - King attends Evers funeral
June 16 - King visits Keuka College, Quinn Chapel in New York
June 17 - King accepts board position on Religion and Race Commission
June 18 - Boston students protest for civil rights
June 19 - President Kennedy submits civil rights bill to Congress
June 20 - King speaks at ACMHR meeting
June 21 - King speaks at Gadsden rally
June 22 - President Kennedy meets with King, Wilkins, Randolph and other civil rights leaders
June 23 - 125,000 march in protest of discrimination in Detroit
June 24 - King meets with New York advisers about Levison/O’Dell
June 27 - King gives interview with LOOK Magazine
June 28 - King speaks at the First Baptist Church in Suffolk
June 29 - King gives a talk at Rutgers University
June 30 - Eggs thrown at King at NY evening service
July 2 - King meets in Roosevelt Hotel
July 3 - King accepts O’Dell resignation, set March date
July 5 - King appears on Press Conference USA
July 7 - King delivers Remember Who You Are at EBC
July 8 - King sends telegram to LBJ about St. Augustine
July 9 - King meets with March planning committee again
July 10 - King speaks at mass meeting in Birmingham
July 11 - King visits Danville
July 12 - King tapes For Freedom Now interview with other leaders
July 13 - King denies Communist ties
July 14 - King delivers Sinner Who Stayed at Home at EBC
July 15 - King urges faith in nonviolence in Birmingham mass meeting
July 16 - King speaks at UN conference on Apartheid
July 21 - King delivers Our Lord’s Temptations at EBC
July 22 - King issues ‘Call to Action’
July 25 - King denies Atlanta Constitution story, officially announces O’Dell’s resignation
July 28 - King speaks in Norfolk, Va. .
July 29 - King asks for 1000 volunteers at Birmingham mass meeting
August 4 - King delivers Making It In on Broken Pieces at EBC
August 5 - King participates in interracial Birmingham variety show
August 8 - King goes to New York for 10-day vacation with family
August 9 - King attends emergency planning meeting
August 10 - King overheard commenting on Rustin by FBI wiretap
August 16 - King denies more Communist allegations
August 17 - King flies to Chicago
August 18 - James Meredith graduates from the University of Mississippi
August 20 - King attends SCLC event in Atlanta
August 21 - King delivers Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution at Chicago
August 22 - King and Roy Wilkins make guest appearance on Meet the Press
August 23 - King, others ask for discipline
August 25 - King addresses Polo Grounds rally
August 26 - King declares Boyte special assistant in press release
August 27 - King flies to Chicago, goes to DC for March preparation
August 28 - March on Washington
August 28 - King addresses the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
August 29 - King declares direct action campaign
September 1 - King delivers Go Forward, likely at EBC?
September 3 - King meets with Crozer Seminary President
September 5 - King attends Dorchester planning meeting
September 6 - King gives remarks at Progressive National Baptist Convention in Detroit
September 7 - King in Richmond to settle hotel dispute
September 8 - King attends private gathering at Jackie Robinson’s house
September 12 - King talks with Jones about money concerning I Have a Dream
September 15 - Dynamite blast kills four black girls in Birmingham, Alabama
September 16 - King urges nonviolence repeatedy in Birmingham
September 17 - King blames Wallace in interview for violence
September 18 - King delivers eulogy for three of the four girls killed by a bomb blast in Birmingham
September 18 - King delivers “Eulogy for the Martyred Children”
September 19 - King and other civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy
September 20 - King speaks at Congregation Temple Israel in STL
September 22 - King preaches at EBC
September 24 - King attends board meeting at SCLC convention
September 25 - Discussions continue in convention
September 26 - King concludes board discussions, attends night activities
September 27 - King delivers closing speech at Richmond SCLC conference
September 29 - White students withdraw rather than integrate high school
September 30 - King backs down from immediate demonstrations in Birmingham
October 4 - King meets with civil rights leaders
October 5 - King attends concert, meets with Stanley Levison
October 6 - King calls for federal investigation in New Orleans
October 7 - King makes demands, threatens demonstrations in Birmingham
October 14 - King returns to Birmingham
October 15 - King speaks in Birmingham, heads to Selma
October 17 - King speaks at Cobo Hall
October 18 - King delivers Facing the Challenge of a New Age at South Bend
October 20 - King speaks at Mount Holyoke, Wesleyan Colleges
October 21 - Birmingham activists vote in favor of demonstrations
October 22 - Chicago students protest de facto segregation
October 23 - King heads to New York to speak at District 65 Union
October 24 - King stops by Baltimore
October 27 - King attends groundbreaking ceremony at Philadelphia
November 1 - King attends pre-Thanksgiving service meeting
November 3 - King preaches Dry Bones at EBC
November 4 - King stays in Birmingham overnight
November 5 - King invited to two-day nonviolence conference
November 6 - King delivers lecture at end of two-day nonviolence conference
November 7 - Over 70,000 disenfranchised black citizens participate in Freedom Ballot in Mississippi
November 9 - King recieves St. Francis Peace Medal award
November 10 - Malcolm X delivers “A Message to the Grass Roots” in Detroit
November 11 - King speaks at 2nd annual Albany Movement Occasion
November 13 - King appears before Selma jury, goes to Cleveland
November 14 - King appears at Oberlin, unable to speak due to flu
November 15 - King cancels appearance to Adams’s party
November 17 - King gives anniversary sermon at Mt. Olivet in New York
November 19 - King receives award, gives message at New York, meets up with Levison
November 20 - King flies to Chicago to give another address
November 21 - King flies over to Danville
November 22 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas
November 23 - King grants NBC interview about Kennedy Assassination
November 24 - King publishes essay, gives speech in Washington
November 25 - King attends Kennedy funeral, talks to LBJ
November 26 - King gives speech in New York, warned of Communist connections
November 28 - King gives Thanksgiving sermon
November 29 - King grants interview to Ph. D student
December 1 - King attends Mahalia Jackson concert in Atlanta
December 2 - King speaks as Western Michigan University
December 3 - King talks with President Johnson, then heads to New York
December 5 - King talks to Rustin from Atlanta
December 8 - King speaks at EBC, Montgomery
December 12 - King speaks at Franklin and Marshall College
December 15 - King speaks at 4000-person rally in Atlanta park
December 18 - King speaks at Western Michigan
December 19 - King speaks at a fundraiser in Baltimore
December 22 - King preaches at Ebenezer, stays there
December 23 - King receives telephone call from President
December 27 - King evaluates Johnson in newspaper article draft
December 29 - King may have spoke at Farband Labor Zionist Order convention
December 30 - King receives congratulation letters for Time Man of the Year Award
January 3 - Martin Luther King named Time’s “Man of the Year”
January 13 - Louisiana ballot law invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court
January 17 - Dick Gregory and SNCC lead Atlanta protests against segregation
January 18 - King meets with President Lyndon Johnson
January 21 - Carl Rowan named director of the U.S. Information Agency
January 23 - Congress ratifies the 24th Amendment banning poll taxes
January 27 - Atlanta demonstrators arrested after confrontation with Klan
January 29 - Cleveland protesters demand integration of city’s schools
January 31 - Louis Allen is shot to death near McComb, Mississippi
February 3 - Thousands protest racial imbalances in New York City schools
February 4 - Austin T. Walden becomes first black judge in Georgia in 20th century
February 9 - Segregation violence prompts invitation to SCLC
February 11 - 19,000 students boycott school in Cincinnati protest
February 13 - Richard Nixon criticizes the tactics of civil rights leaders
February 26 - Maryland State College students demonstrate for civil rights; dispersed by state troopers
March 5 - Martin Luther King leads 10,000 in support of Kentucky state public accommodations law
March 8 - Malcolm X Leaves the Nation of Islam
March 23 - Violence erupts in Jacksonville after a black woman is shot and killed
March 24 - Amiri Baraka’s play Dutchman opens in New York City
March 26 - King meets Malcolm X
April 3 - Malcom X delivers “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech
April 7 - Louis Allen is murdered near Liberty, Mississippi
April 13 - Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to win an Oscar in a leading role
April 20 - Black students in Cleveland boycott school in protest
April 22 - CORE members demonstrate at the NY World’s Fair
April 26 - SNCC members found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)
May 25 - The U.S. Supreme Court finds the closing of Prince Edward public schools to be unconstitutional
May 26 - King appeals for outside assistance in St. Augustine, Florida
June 5 - King’s book Why Can’t We Wait is published
June 11 - King is arrested for demanding service at a white-only restaurant
June 18 - Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy arrested for protesting segregation at Monson Motor Lodge
June 21 - Three civil rights workers are reported missing in Mississippi
June 25 - Hundreds of whites attack antisegregation march in St. Augustine
June 28 - Malcolm X cofounds the Organization of Afro-American Unity
June 30 - Malcolm X offers to send troops to King’s aid in St. Augustine
July 2 - King attends the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
July 8 - Arnold Aronson of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights writes King
July 16 - King opposes nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater by Republicans
July 21 - King arrives in Mississippi to assist civil rights effort
August 4 - The bodies of three missing civil rights workers are found in Mississippi
August 20 - President Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act
August 22 - King testifies at Democratic convention on behalf of Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
September 8 - Public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, reopen
October 4 - Free Speech Movement begins at Univeristy California Berkeley
October 9 - Klan member agrees to testify in the murder of Shwerner, Chaney, and Goodman
November 3 - Lydon Johnson wins the 1964 Presidential election
December 10 - King Receives Nobel Peace Prize
December 14 - Discrimination struck down in privately owned hotels
January 19 - Sixty-two voting rights protesters arrested at Dallas County courthouse in Selma, Alabama
January 22 - Black man shot to death in Hinds County, Mississippi jail after arrest on indecency charges
January 27 - Integrated dinner in Atlanta honors King
February 1 - King is jailed with more than two hundred others after voting rights march in Selma, Alabama
February 4 - Federal judge outlaws Selma’s voter registration test
February 5 - Coretta Scott King meets with Malcolm X in Selma, Alabama
February 9 - Martin Luther King meets with President Johnson regarding voters’ rights
February 10 - Sheriff Jim Clark and his officers impel more than 150 black protesters on forced march
February 16 - Police and FBI arrest three members of the Black Liberation Front and woman for various plots
February 18 - Black protester Jimmie Lee Jackson shot in Marion, Alabama
February 21 - Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem
February 26 - Jimmie Lee Jackson dies after being shot by police
March 3 - King speaks at funeral of Jimmy Lee Jackson
March 5 - King and Johnson meet to discuss voting rights act
March 7 - Voting rights marchers are beaten at Edmund Pettus Bridge
March 9 - King leads second attempt at a voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
March 10 - Federal panel rules that Virginia tuition grants cannot be used to fund segregated private schools
March 11 - Rev. James Reeb Dies
March 13 - President Johnson denounces the brutality in Alabama in a meeting with governor George Wallace
March 14 - Nuns of the New York Archdiocese protest against injustices in Selma, Alabama
March 15 - President Johnson addresses Congress in support of a Voting Rights Bill
March 16 - Mounted police attack demonstrators in Montgomery
March 17 - Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson rules demonstrators can march
March 20 - President Johnson federalizes the Alabama National Guard to oversee Selma to Montgomery march
March 21 - Selma Marchers cross Pettus Bridge
March 25 - Selma to Montgomery March
March 30 - King attends funeral rites for Viola Liuzzo
April 25 - Segregationist Lester Maddox leads 2,000 in march
July 3 - King publishes an article in the New York Amsterdam News
July 4 - King preaches “The American Dream”
July 5 - King sends a cablegram to FOR executive director Alfred Hassler in Saigon
July 17 - King arrives in Los Angeles at the invitation of local groups
July 26 - King leads march to Chicago City Hall and addresses a rally
August 6 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is signed into law
August 11 - Massive rioting begins in Watts
August 12 - King calls for halt to U.S. Bombing of North Vietnam
December 4 - President Johnson prohibits discrimination in federal aid
January 7 - King announces the start of the Chicago Campaign
January 16 - King applaudes antiwar stance of SNCC activist Julian Bond
February 11 - Kick-off meeting for Operation Breadbasket
June 5 - King preaches “Guidelines for a Constructive Church”
June 6 - James Meredith, who integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962, is wounded
June 7 - King, McKissick and Carmichael continue the “Meredith March Against Fear”
June 16 - Stokely Carmichael ignites controvery by using the phrase “black power”
June 26 - March Against Fear
July 6 - Vice President Hubert Humphrey writes King
July 10 - King leads thousands of protestors from a rally at Soldier’s Field to Chicago’s City Hall
July 15 - Mayor Richard Daley and King announce new programs and initiatives for Chicago blacks
August 5 - Angry whites attack civil rights march through Chicago’s southwest side
August 26 - King arranges “Summit Agreement” with Major R. Daley and other Chicago leaders
September 12 - Black students attacked at integrated school
October 6 - 100th civil rights march in Grenada, Mississippi
October 24 - Demonstrators in Grenada, Mississippi protest harassment
February 25 - King delivers the speech “The Casualties of the War in Vietnam”
April 4 - King delivers his first public antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” at New York’s Riverside Church
April 9 - King preaches “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”
May 22 - At an SCLC staff retreat King calls for a radical redistribution of economic and political power
June 11 - King preaches “A Knock at Midnight”
June 13 - Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
July 20 - First Black Power conference is held
July 26 - National SNCC chairman H. Rap Brown is arrested for inciting riot
July 29 - President Johnson appoints a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
August 25 - J. Edgar Hoover begins investigations
August 27 - King preaches “Why Jesus Called a Man a Fool”
October 1 - Wall of Respect dedicated in Chicago
November 7 - Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher become first black mayors of major U.S. cities
December 4 - King launches the Poor People’s Campaign
January 16 - King announces the Washington Spring Project as part of Poor Peoples Campaign
February 4 - King delivers his “Drum Major Instinct” sermon in Atlanta, Georgia
March 3 - King delivers his “Unfulfilled Dreams” sermon in Atlanta, Georgia
March 18 - King speaks to striking sanitation workers in Memphis
March 23 - King addresses a rally for the Poor People’s Campaign in Augusta, Georgia
March 28 - King leads a solidarity march for the sanitation workers of Memphis
March 31 - King preaches at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
April 3 - King delivers his final speech
April 4 - King is assassinated at Lorraine Motel
April 7 - National Day of Mourning to honor King
April 8 - Silent march to honor King, support santitation workers
April 9 - King’s funeral in Atlanta, Georgia
April 16 - Settlement reached in Memphis sanitation workers’ strike
May 23 - African-American poet Henry Dumas is shot and killed by a transit police officer
June 8 - James Earl Ray is arrested and charged with the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 1 - President Johnson signs Housing and Urban Development Act
September 27 - Huey Newton is sentenced
October 16 - U.S. olympic sprinters give Black Power salute during medal ceremony
November 5 - Shirley Chisholm is elected to U. S. House of Representatives
January 17 - Two leaders of the Black Panther Party are killed at UCLA by US organization members
May 5 - Moneta Sleet, Jr. becomes the first African-American man to win a Pulitzer Prize
June 26 - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change is founded
October 29 - Supreme Court mandates immediate school desegregation
April 28 - Rear Admiral Samuel L. Gravely is the first African-American to achieve Flag Rank in the Navy
May 3 - James Earl Ray, convicted of the assassination of King, is caught in a jail break attempt
June 14 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that officials may close swimming pools to avoid desegregating them
June 15 - Vernon Jordan succeeds Whitney Young as head of the National Urban League
June 17 - The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals orders complete desegregation in 81 Southern school district
September 17 - Illinois becomes the first state to declare King’s birthday a legal holiday
November 6 - Coleman Young is elected mayor of Detriot
July 25 - The U.S. Supreme court rules against busing as a remedy for segregated schooling
October 3 - Frank Robinson becomes African American to manage a Major League Baseball Team
November 5 - Walter E. Washington elected mayor of D.C.
November 2 - Jimmy Carter wins the Presidential election while receiving 90 percent of the black vote
September 24 - First Black Bishop of the Episcopal Church is appointed
November 6 - Benjamin Hooks becomes director of the NAACP
November 3 - Five protesters are gunned down at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina
May 29 - African-American lawyer and civil rights leader Vernon Jordan is shot by a white racist
April 12 - Harold Washington is elected as the first African American mayor of Chicago
November 2 - Martin Luther King, Jr., day becomes a National Holiday
May 7 - Jesse Jackson wins the Democratic presidential primary in Louisiana
July 24 - The 98th U.S. Congress passes Public Law 98-144 to honor the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
July 30 - The U.S. General Accounting Office agrees to pay $3.5 million to victims of discrimination
August 21 - Package explodes at NAACP office in Atlanta
November 7 - L. Douglas Wilder is elected governor of Virginia
April 29 - L.A. riots begin after four white officers are acquitted of the beating of Rodney King
November 3 - William Jefferson Clinton wins Presidential Election
May 23 - The State of Florida agrees to pay $2.1 million to survivors of the 1923 Rosewood massacre
May 24 - Flagstar Co. agrees to pay more than $54 million to victims of discrimination at Denny’s restaurant
May 16 - President Clinton offers a formal apology for the 1932-1972 Tuskegee syphilis experiments
January 25 - Sojourner Truth addresses the first Black Women’s Rights Convention
June 21 - Ray Killen is convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of three civil rights workers in 1964

Today in History
May 24, 1955
The Little Rock School Board votes on a proposed timeline for desegregating public schools
May 24, 1994
Flagstar Co. agrees to pay more than $54 million to victims of discrimination at Denny’s restaurant
May 24, 1961
Freedom Riders leave Montgomery, arrive in Jackson and arrested
May 24, 1956
Twenty thousand attend civil rights rally at Madison Square Garden
May 24, 1963
King goes to LA
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December 1, 1955
Arrest report for Rosa Parks
February 14, 1957
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December 1, 1957
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June 30, 1964
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April 3, 1968
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“The Drum Major Instinct"**
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