Selected Sixties Events for 1963

Selected Sixties Events for 1963
Month	Day	Event	Related Resource
		The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan becomes a best seller.
April	16	Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for participating in a demonstration to end segregated facilities. During his 11 day imprisonment he writes the "Letter from Birmingham Jail."	Link
May	03	Birmingham Public Safety Director, "Bull" Connor permits the use of police dogs and fire hoses against civil rights protesters. Over 2,400 persons are arrested between May 2-7.	Link
	20	The U.S. Supreme Court declares Birmingham, Alabama segregation ordinances unconstitutional.	Link
	27	"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" is released. Songs include: 'Blowin' In The Wind,' 'Girl From The North Country, Masters Of War,' 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,' and 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.'	Link
	28	The Equal Pay Act is passed by the U.S. Congress to provide equal by for equal pay for equal work without discrimination on the basis of sex.	Link
June	11	Alabama Governor George Wallace tries to stop the court ordered integration of the University of Alabama by standing by the door and personally refusing entrance to black students and Justice Department officials.	Link
June	12	Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary and civil rights activist, is murdered at his home in Jacksonville, Mississippi . Evers, a Sergeant in the United States Army, is buried in Arlington Cemetery in Washington, DC	Link
August	28	The 1963 March on Washington is the first integrated civil rights demonstration. The March is organized to present the civil rights agenda to Congress. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the famous the "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 250,00	Link
September	15	Four small black girls are killed in a Birmingham, Alabama church bombing.	Link
October		The report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women, entitled American Women, is published, documenting pervasive sex discrimination and the absence of support systems.
November	22	President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rides in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. At his death, the 35th president was 46 years old and had served less than three years in office.	Link
December	10	Maria Goeppert-Mayer is the first American women to win a Nobel Prize for physics, and the second woman of any nationality to receive the award. Marie Curie was the first.