Thomas Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry were charged with murdering the four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Baseball player Cool Papa Bell (aka James Thomas Bell) is born.

Frederick Jones, inventor of the truck refrigeration system, is born.

Musician John William Boone (aka Blind Boone) is born.

Civil rights leader Asa Philip Randolph dies.

By Imani Perry
Sag Harbor is the first-person narrative of teenaged Benji Cooper and his relationship to the place and people of his summers: Sag Harbor, New York.

Sammy Davis, Jr. dies.

Jazz singer Betty Carter is born.

Stagecoach driver Mary Fields, a western cowgirl, is born.

Poet Georgia Douglas Johnson dies.