On the evening of May 3, 1963, Americans watched on television as Martin Luther King Jr.'s campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama collapsed under a wave of officially sanctioned violence.

Civil Rights Announcement June 11, 1963 This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy asked Congress Thursday for a series of new laws to protect Negroes from "the cruel disease of discrimination" in voting, schooling, and other ...