The 60's saw everything from the election and assignation of the nation's first Catholic president, a divisive war with Vietnam, the space race which led to American astronauts landing on the moon, the Arms Race with Russia, the Civil Rights Movement, the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr., and on and on. ... Though this was not the first sit-ins to occur this was the beginning of list of events that changed everything. ...

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At the beginning I began to look for information on the internet and in various libraries. ... Nothing indicated that anything would change. 1.2 The beginning (1954 - 1963) King's life as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement began in 1955 with the Bus Boycott. Its beginning was not actually a planned action, but rather a coincidence. ... On November 13, 1956, one year after its beginning, the Montgomery Bus Boycott finally ended. ...

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After the Civil War and the Emancipation Declaration which abolished slavery, everything at first seemed to change. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ...

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