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Calls for Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
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Albert Boutwell wins a runoff agains Bull Connor in the 1963 mayoral election.
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2000 marchers go from St. Paul Methodist Church to Henley School where they were dispersed by police and dogs.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Arrested for parading without a permit.
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Children's Crusade began with large groups of students converging at Birmingham City Hall to protest Bull Connor and his police actions.
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Bull Connor ordered the use of police dogs and firehoses to break up marches.
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Shuttlesworth announces end of the Birmingham Campaign.
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JFK authorizes moving riot-control troops to military bases in the vicinity of Birmingham.
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Judge reverses expulsion of Birmingham City School students arrested for demonstrating.
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Govornor George Wallace Stands in school house door blocking Black students form entering whites only schools.
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5th Circuit rulles that Birmingham City Schools must desegregate.
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Martin Luther gives I have a dream speech in Washington.
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JFK Assassinated in Dalles Texas.