Medical breakthroughs were important in the sixties. This essay explains the events and people of the sixties from 1960 to 1970. ... With leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, the Civil Rights Movement grew to be one of the most important movement in the sixties. ... Sadly his life came to an end by a bullet from his assign, James Earl Ray, on April 4, 1968 Important events in the movement involved the many sit-ins, riots, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 passed. ... Kennedy's death was the fall of the "American Camelot" The War on Poverty was also another movem...

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• Grade Level: High School

Wilder's way of thinking is very important point within the book. ... "The material thinking is not thought, but actions, facts, events, and the relations of things" (Dewy 562). Hartke advocates the same deception about the lies said by the government during the Vietnam War. After Hartke joined the army he was sent to fight in the Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War. ... The complete opposite occurred with the Vietnam War. ...

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This was also, unfortunately, the time that the assassinations of important leaders took place. ... The Kennedy Era, 1960 - 1963, saw many important events. ... Martin Luther King, Jr., was an important figure that worked hard throughout the 60's in order to gain black Americans' civil rights. ... King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the largest and most dramatic civil rights demonstration, the March on Washington, was the high point of the event. ... The 1960's also had many other people that were important to the development of the civil rights movement. ...

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This decade was filled with countless important events that are still impacting us. 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. ... Among the emotionally explosive events of this decade is the Civil Rights Movement. ... Though this was not the first sit-ins to occur this was the beginning of list of events that changed...

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929. Throughout his life, King was known best as a Civil Rights Leader. King was born into a family of Baptist Ministers. King grew up in a time when the opportunities for education and experience were not available to children in poorer urban and rural areas....

• Word Count: 2619
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