1963: A Pivotal Year for the Civil Rights Movement
1963: A Pivotal Year for the Civil Rights Movement
This page features Democracy Now! interviews about the Civil
Rights Movement as we mark the 50th anniversary of many of its pivotal moments
in 1963. The year began with Alabama Gov. George Wallace vowing "segregation
now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever." That April, Martin Luther
King, Jr. was arrested and wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and in June
NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was gunned down
outside his home in Mississippi.
On August 28th, hundreds of thousands gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Less than a month later, four young girls were killed when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. In November, Malcolm X delivered his "Message to the Grass Roots" speech.
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On August 28th, hundreds of thousands gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Less than a month later, four young girls were killed when a bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. In November, Malcolm X delivered his "Message to the Grass Roots" speech.
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