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The Secret Life of Bees is set in South Carolina between 1964 and 1965, as the President of United States, Lyndon Johnson, signs the Civil Rights Act into law. Racial tension is high, and white people refuse to let blacks associate with them. Kidd mentions Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and his arrest in Florida for wanting to eat in a white restaurant, Nat King Cole and many other prominent black Americans.