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This paper provides a brief review of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the campus-based student movements and American politics during the 1960s in America. It begins by introducing the political climate of the time and then provides an overview of civil rights movements and student governments.

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"Certainly the students of the sixties were faced with a dilemma never faced by the World War II-generation: while the nation was pulled together, morally and politically, in one direction during WW II in its effort to defeat the Axis, however, the nation was completely polarized during the sixties by the divisive war in Vietnam. Young black and white men in America were being drafted and sent off as cannon fodder to the war in Vietnam in increasing numbers. Despite polls which indicated that the majority of Americans favored an end to the war in Vietnam, and assurances from the Johnson and Nixon administrations that there was a plan to end the war, the plan turned out to be the continued prosecution of the war in Vietnam in a misguided effort to avoid a Domino- Effect in Asia."

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