Selected Sixties Events for 1967 |
| Month | Day | Event | Related Resource |
| October | | Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. Long before President Lyndon Johnson appointed him the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Marshall had established himself as the nation's leading legal civil rights advocate. | Link |
13 | Presidential Executive Order 11375 amends E.O. 11246 to prohibit sex discrimination in employment by the federal government and by contractors doing business with the government. | Link | 22 | 100,000 people March on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. The March includes appearances by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, author Norman Mailer, poet Robert Lowell and pediatrician Benjamin Spock. This is one of many demonstrations during the year. | | 30 | The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the contempt-of-court convictions of Dr. King and seven other black leaders who led the 1963 marches in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King and his aides serve four day jail sentences. | | 31 | A radical women's group formed in New York introduces a more radical turn in the women's movement along with the technique of "consciousness raising." The group is later called the New York Radical Women. | | | March | 12 | Alabama is ordered to desegregate all public schools. | |
| April | 04 | Martin Luther King, Jr delivers an antiwar address, "Beyond Vietnam: Time to Break the Silence" at a meeting of the Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. | Link |
25 | Colorado becomes the first state to liberalize its abortion law, along lines suggested by the American Law Institute. | | | June | | At the Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association the House of Delagates vote to support abortions under certain conditions. | |
| July | 12 | The 1967 Newark, New Jersey riot begins with the arrest and beating of a cab driver, who allegedly drove around a double-parked police car at the corner of 7th St. and 15th Avenue. The riot spreads from black neighborhoods to downtown Newark. At the conclusion of six days of rioting 23 people lay dead, 725 people were injured and close to 1500 people had been arrested. | Link |
23 | The Detroit Riot of 1967 begins when police vice squad officers execute a raid on an after hours drinking club or “blind pig” in a predominantly black neighborhoods. Looting and fires marked week of intense disturbances that left 43 people dead and 324 injured. | Link | | October | | Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as a Supreme Court justice. Long before President Lyndon Johnson appointed him the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Marshall had established himself as the nation's leading legal civil rights advocate. | Link |
13 | Presidential Executive Order 11375 amends E.O. 11246 to prohibit sex discrimination in employment by the federal government and by contractors doing business with the government. | Link | 22 | 100,000 people March on the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. The March includes appearances by Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, author Norman Mailer, poet Robert Lowell and pediatrician Benjamin Spock. This is one of many demonstrations during the year. | | 30 | The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the contempt-of-court convictions of Dr. King and seven other black leaders who led the 1963 marches in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. King and his aides serve four day jail sentences. | | 31 | A radical women's group formed in New York introduces a more radical turn in the women's movement along with the technique of "consciousness raising." The group is later called the New York Radical Women. | | | November | 07 | The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. | |
08 | President Johnson signs public law 90-130 which retains combat limitations but allowed women in the Armed Forces equal promotion and retirements rights, and removes the 2% restriction on the number of women allowed to serve. | | | December | 04 | Martin Luther King, Jr. announces the formation by SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) of a "Poor People's Campaign" with the aim of representing the problems of poor blacks and whites. | Link |
11 | A black student is shot to death during a two day riot on the campus of Jackson State College, Jackson, Mississippi. | |
