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Martin Luther King Jr helped begin the "sit in movement." It began when two students in 1960 went to whites only lunch counter and asked for coffee. When they were refused to be served the students sat down at a table and waited for someone to serve them. (History.com) While hearing intimidating comments, verbal abuse and even physical abuse, the civil rights sit in was born. (History.com) Blacks would be pelted with food or even packets of ketchup and when the police would come and arrest them, new blacks would fill in the seats. 1500 hundred blacks were arrested around different places. Slowly, but surely the restaurants in the south abandoned their policies of segregation.