Arkansas governor orders the National Guard to block the entrance to a high school desegregated by the Supreme Court; segregationists from surrounding southern states converge upon the state and incite rioting despite the fact the black students had been turned away.
Race riots erupt as segregationists fight integregrated schooling. JFK Announces Civil Rights Act on June 11, 1963. Klan leader Robert Shelter promise to kill Martin Luther King, whose motel room is bombed.