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January 18, 1960 - Bishop C.M. "Daddy" Grace dies. Brought by train, his casket arrives in Charlotte to be viewed by thousands of his grief-stricken followers.
February 1, 1960: Charlotte's Franklin McCain and three other North Carolina A & T students are refused service at the F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They begin a sit-in that spreads to eight other cities in the state, and finally, to every state in the South.
November 21, 1960 - "Stay" goes to the top of the charts.
1962 - Fred Alexander becomes the first black member of the Chamber of Commerce
January 16, 1963 - Harvey Gantt desegregates Clemson College. January 16, 1963
1963 - Separate campuses are built for UNC Charlotte and Carver College.
May 13, 1964 - Charlotte minister and dentist Reginald Hawkins starts a protest at the YMCA, which excludes blacks from its membership. After protests and lawsuits, the YMCA board changes its policy.
January 24, 1965 - Dynamite destroys the car of Julius Chambers, a black NAACP lawyer, while he speaks at a civil rights rally at a church in New Bern. Three Ku Klux Klansmen are arrested and receive suspended sentences.
April 18, 1965 - Friendship Baptist Church in Second Ward is demolished.
November 22, 1965 - The homes of four local civil rights leaders are bombed in Charlotte.
May 4, 1965 - Fred Alexander is elected to the Charlotte City Council. Photo shows Alexander being sworn in on the 10th.
1966 - King brings the civil rights movement to the North and opposes the War in Vietnam. This is a time of change for the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., takes the movement north and encounters resistance. In Chicago on August 5, 1966, protesters throw stones at him.
1967 - The Charlotte Redevelopment Authority begins the demolition of First Ward. Some residents move to traditionally black neighborhoods.
Johnson C. Smith students protest the deaths of three students. Johnson C. Smith students burn an effigy of South Carolina's governor to protest the deaths of three students in Orangeburg, SC.
April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Marchers demonstrate in downtown Charlotte after King's death.
1968 - Jackie Harrison graduates from predominantly white Harding High School.
The fence dividing Elmwood Cemetery is taken down. The fence dividing Elmwood Cemetery into separate black and white sections is taken down. The only black city council member, Fred Alexander, leads the fight to bring down the fence that separates black and white people even in death.