1965
Jan 4

Free Speech Movement Hold First “Legal” Rally

Jan 15

LBJ Calls Martin Luther King – Plan Voting Rights Strategy

Feb 10

Man Convicted for Distributing Anonymous Political Leaflet; NYCLU to Challenge NY Law

Feb 15

ACLU Criticizes Planned HUAC Investigation of KKK

Feb 21

Malcolm X Assassinated in New York City

Feb 26

Stewardesses Demand End to Forced Retirement at Age 35

Mar 5

National Wildlife Federation Opposes Native-American Fishing Rights

Mar 7

“Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama: John Lewis, Other Marchers Beaten and Tear Gassed

Mar 8

LBJ Affirms Rights of Criminal Suspects

Mar 8

Supreme Court Expands the Right of Conscientious Objection to War

Mar 11

Boston Minister James Reeb Beating to Death by White Racists in Selma

Mar 15

“We . . . Shall . . . Overcome:” LBJ Gives Historic Voting Rights Speech

Mar 16

LBJ Sends Federal Troops to Guard Selma Voting Rights March

Mar 21

Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March Begins Again

Mar 24

First Vietnam War Teach-in at University of Michigan

Mar 25

1965 Voting Rights March Reaches Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery

Mar 25

Civil Rights Volunteer Viola Liuzzo Murdered in Alabama

Apr 8

Senate to Investigate Invasions of Privacy by Post Office

Apr 17

First Big Anti-Vietnam War March on Washington

Apr 17

Mattachine Society Pickets White House to Demand Equal Rights for Homosexuals

Apr 21

Ohio State Bans Marxist Speaker, Herbert Aptheker

Apr 26

Supreme Court Limits Seizure of Organization’s Records: Dombrowski v. Pfister

Apr 27

SCOPE Voter Registration Drive Launched

May 5

Music Giant Duke Ellington Denied Pulitzer Special Citation

May 24

Supreme Court Strikes Down Postal Censorship Law

May 26

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Becomes First Chair of New EEOC

May 28

FBI Investigates Actor Rock Hudson for “Homosexual Tendencies”

Jun 4

President Johnson Outlines New Civil Rights Challenges

Jun 7

A Constitutional Right to Privacy: “Griswold v. Connecticut”

Jun 30

President Johnson Bans Wiretapping – Sort Of

Jul 2

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Established

Jul 4

“Annual Reminder:” First in a Series of Annual Gay Rights Protests

Jul 15

New York Abolishes Elite “Blue Ribbon” Juries

Jul 20

All in a Day’s Work: New York Repeals, Reinstates Sodomy Law on the Same Day

Jul 20

New York Criminal Anarchy Law Repealed

Aug 6

LBJ Signs Historic Voting Rights Act

Aug 12

Dr. Martin Luther King Opposes Vietnam War

Aug 16

LA Rioters Granted the “Precious Right” to Bail

Aug 30

LBJ Signs Draft Card-Burning Law

Sep 10

NYC Police Commissioner: Supreme Court Makes Law Enforcement “More Difficult”

Sep 14

Stewardesses Win Grievance on Airline No Marriage Policy

Sep 24

President Johnson Orders Affirmative Action

Oct 3

LBJ Signs Historic Immigration Reform Law in Ceremony at the Statue of Liberty

Oct 4

Abe Fortas, Great Civil Libertarian, Joins Supreme Court

Oct 12

Pauli Murray Calls for Women’s March on Washington – No March But Call Leads to Founding of NOW

Oct 15

David Miller First to Publicly Burn His Draft Card in Vietnam War Protest

Oct 22

225,000 Students Boycott Chicago Schools to Protest De Facto Segregation

Oct 27

LBJ Caves on De Facto School Desegregation in the North

Nov 2

First Federally Supported Birth Control Clinic Opens

Nov 8

Wall of Separation Breached – Limited Federal Aid to Parochial Schools Approved

Nov 9

Vietnam War Protester Sets Himself On Fire

Nov 24

Sharp Racial Divisions Mar White House Civil Rights Conference

Nov 27

Tens of Thousands of Vietnam War Protesters Picket the White House

Dec 3

All-White Jury Convicts KKK Members for Murder of Viola Liuzzo

Dec 16

Mary Beth Tinker, 8th Grader, Suspended for Wearing Protest Arm Band to School

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