diff --git a/.github/workflows/pythonTests.yml b/.github/workflows/pythonTests.yml
index 7676109..143d6af 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pythonTests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pythonTests.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       max-parallel: 8
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13-dev"]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13-dev"]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index 3b879b1..4d654c4 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ emoji
 
 Release v\ |version|. (:ref:`Installation <install>`)
 
-emoji supports Python 3.6+. The last version to support Python 2.7 and 3.5 was v2.4.0.
+emoji supports Python 3.7+. The last version to support Python 2.7 and 3.5 was v2.4.0.
 
 .. contents:: Table of Contents
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 44845c9..991f69e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=59.6.0"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=65.0.0"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "emoji"
 description = "Emoji for Python"
 readme = "README.rst"
-requires-python = ">=3.6"
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
 authors = [
     {name = "Taehoon Kim", email = "carpedm20@gmail.com"},
     {name = "Kevin Wurster", email = "wursterk@gmail.com"},
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",