Dissent in Wichita The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 |
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| Author:
| Eick, Gretchen Cassel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-02683-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $103.00 |
Book Description:
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On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Based on interviews with over eighty participants and observers of this sit-in, Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and...
More DescriptionOn a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Based on interviews with over eighty participants and observers of this sit-in, Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in an unexpected locus of the civil rights movement, revealing that the movement was a national, not a southern, phenomenon.