[Train Whistle] The Civil Rights Movement came to the National floor under the leadership of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who advocated civil disobedience to resolve social and economic issues. The strategy called for peaceful testing of segregated inter-state facilities, and sit-ins by Black college students at segregated restaurants. In Augusta, the Reverend Charles S. Hamilton, John H. Ruffin Jr., Isaiah E. Washington, Benjamin L. Dent, Richard A. Dent, Paine College student Silas Norman, and CW Hickson Jr., led the local movement for civil rights and desegregation. Ms. Brenda Cohen was the first black student in an all-white school when she attended Aquinas in 1963, however, Ms. Barbara Gant was the first Black student in an all-white public school in Augusta in 1964.