1963 a very eventful year in US history .....JFK, 4 LTTLE GIRLS, MARCH ON WASH DC, MEGAR January 14 George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever! January 28 – African American student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial integration. April 12 Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and others are arrested in a Birmingham, Alabama protest for parading without a permit. April 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his Letter from Birmingham Jail. May 2 Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. Public Safety Commissioner Eugene Bull Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators. June 10 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his American University speech, A Strategy of Peace, in Washington, D.C. Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll. President John F. Kennedy broadcasts a historic Civil Rights Address, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves. June 12 Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi (his killer is convicted in 1994) August 28: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Main article: August 1963 . August 18 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi. August 28 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his I Have A Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. September 15 – American civil rights movement: The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama, kills 4 and injures 22. October 1 Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican Constitution is established. In the U.S., the Presidents Commission on the Status of Women issues its final reports to President Kennedy. October 8 – Sam Cooke and his band are arrested after trying to register at a whites only motel in Louisiana. In the months following, he records the song A Change Is Gonna Come. October 16 – The thousandth day of John F. Kennedys presidency. November 10 – Malcolm X makes an historic speech in Detroit, Michigan: Message to the Grass Roots. November 22: Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as U.S. President after assassination of John F. Kennedy. November 22 Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President of the United States John F. Kennedy is shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John B. Connally is seriously wounded. A few hours later Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President aboard Air Force One as Kennedys body is flown back to Washington, D.C. All television coverage for the next four days is devoted to the assassination and its aftermath, the November 24 procession of the horsedrawn casket to the United States Capitol rotunda, and the funeral. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute. Phil Spectors A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector is released. The Beatles second U.K. album, With the Beatles, is released. November 24 Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, an event seen on live national television. Later that night, a hastily arranged program, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts, featuring actors, opera singers, and noted writers, all performing dramatic readings and/or music, is telecast on ABC-TV. Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically. November 25 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. November 29 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. December 3 – The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. December 12 – Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister.
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