He stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama to prevent two black students, Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood, from registering. Standing second from right is U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Thirty years later, he is convicted for murdering Evers. About 250,000 people join the March on Washington. Four young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, a popular location for civil rights meetings.
Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths.
Montgomery County Public schools ordered to desegregate. It also sends delegates to the Democratic National Convention to protest and attempt to unseat the official all-white Mississippi contingent. Four young girls attending Sunday school are killed when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, a popular location for civil rights meetings. Riots erupt in Birmingham, leading to the deaths of two more black youths. Three Mississippi civil-rights workers are officially declared missing, having disappeared on June 21.