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Georgia History Timeline / Chronology 1963
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| January 14, 1963 |
Jimmy Carter sworn in as state senator
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Jimmy Carter |
| January 17, 1963 |
Supreme Court hears arguments in Sanders v. Gray, which covers the county-unit system of voting violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| January 20, 1963 |
More than 2.5 million dollars in damage is done in Clay County and a person is killed when an F1 tornado travels some 7 miles across the county.
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| February 9, 1963 |
Country music star Travis Tritt born, Marietta
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Marietta, GA |
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Travis Tritt |
| March 18, 1963 |
Supreme Court decides the county-unit system violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (Sanders v. Gray) |
| April 12, 1963 |
Dr. Martin Luther King, representing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is arrested in Birmingham, AL, for contempt of court and parading without a permit. He had come to Birmingham in an attempt to integrate public facilities in accordance with Supreme Court rulings. While in jail he composed his response to a public letter from 8 clergymen (who were white) criticizing him for breaking the law. King responded that We have waited 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. ...it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say "wait."
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The Road to Integration
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Martin Luther King
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| April 16, 1963 |
The Antebellum Plantation opens at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park |
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Stone Mountain |
| April 20, 1963 |
Losing You, Brenda Lee's last top ten hit, peaks at #6
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Brenda Lee
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| April 24, 1963 |
W. W. Law calls for an end to the "night marches" in Savannah, used to encourage blacks to vote because of violence attributed to non-participants during the marches.
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City of Savannah, Georgia |
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The Road to Integration
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| June 3, 1963 |
Vice-president Lyndon Baines Johnson tells advises President John F. Kennedy (through a staff member) that "blacks are tired of this patience stuff..." and that Kennedy ought to "sit-down with Russell" and answer every argument he made against civil rights
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
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The Road to Integration
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| June 10, 1963 |
The Senate votes on cloture on a Civil Rights debate, passing it 71 to 29. This is the first time that the "Southern Bloc" of segregationist senators was defeated trying to block Civil Rights legislation
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The Road to Integration
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
| June 17, 1963 |
Central of Georgia Railway becomes a subsidiary of Southern Railway
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| July 2, 1963 |
Warren Spahn in epic battle against Juan Marichal, as they each pitched 16 scoreless innings. Marichal's Giants eventually beat Spahn's Braves 1-0 on a Willie Mays homer
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Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves |
| July 16, 1963 |
Carl Vinson, at 48 years, 8 months and 13 days becomes the longest serving member in the House of Representatives
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| July 17, 1963 |
Groundbreaking on a new visitors center at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
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| July 22, 1963 |
Official roll-out of the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter in Marietta by President John Kennedy.
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Marietta, GA |
| August 3, 1963 |
Dean Rusk signs the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow.
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Dean Rusk
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| August 9, 1963 |
Whitney Houston born, Newark, New Jersey. Her mother is singer Cissy (Emily) Houston, her cousin is Dionne Warwick
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Whitney Houston
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| August 28, 1963 |
Martin Luther King leads a march of 250,000 supporters of Civil Rights in Washington D.C. Speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King tells the racially mixed crowd "I Have A Dream." Some estimate the crowd at 400,000. This is the culmination of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and speakers other than King include Georgian John Lewis, then chairman of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee).
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Martin Luther King
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| September 2, 1963 |
Macon's Ron Fairly graces the cover of Sports Illustrated
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Ron Fairly |
| September 10, 1963 |
Groundbreaking for St. Mary's Hospital, Athens, Georgia
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Clarke County, Georgia |
| October 1, 1963 |
Georgia, eight months ahead of the National Civil Rights Act comprehensively desegregates virtually every public facility
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The Road to Integration
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| October 27, 1963 |
Marla Maples born, Dalton, Georgia
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| October 31, 1963 |
Just before Halloween festivities were scheduled to begin in downtown Marietta, Georgia, Atherton's Drug Store exploded in a ball of flames, killing 7 and injuring 34 |
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Marietta, GA |
| November 29, 1963 |
President Lyndon Johnson issues a call for a committee to investigate the Kennedy assassination. Georgia Senator Richard Russell's name is on the list of members.
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Richard B. Russell, Jr. |
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