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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dockum_Drug_Store_sit-inDockum Drug Store sit-in - Wikipedia

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   The Dockum Drug Store sit-in was one of the first organized lunch counter sit-ins for the purpose of integrating segregated establishments in the United States. The protest began on July 19, 1958 in downtown Wichita, Kansas , at a Dockum Drug Store (a store in the old Rexall chain), in which protesters would sit at the counter all day until the ...

   • Date: July 19 – August 11, 1958, (3 weeks and 2 days)

   • Resulted in: Catalyst of Oklahoma City Katz Drug sit-in., Desegregation of Dockum Drug Store in Wichita, then all Dockum stores in Kansas.

2. www.visitwichita.com › blog › postDockum Drug Store Sit-In: Why it matters to Wichita’s rich ...

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   Jan 19, 2024 · Posted: Jan. 19, 2024. Photo: Dockum Drug Store circa 1955. Credit: Edgar B. Smith, wichitaphotos.org. It helped change the course of history – but few people even today know about it. The 1958 Dockum Drug Store Sit-in was an effort to end segregation in Wichita and the United States.

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   What is the Dockum Drug Store sit-in?

   • The sit-in is recognized as the one of the leading events of the Civil Rights Movement and the first of its kind led by students. The Dockum Drug Store sit-in of 1958 is attracting new attention during Black History Month, in part thanks to NBC’s “Today” and Wichita native Sheinelle Jones.

   Wichita State students led 1958 sit-in at whites-only lunch counter

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   Who participated in the Dockum Drug Store sit-in of 1958?

   • The Dockum Drug Store sit-in of 1958 is attracting new attention during Black History Month, in part thanks to NBC’s “Today” and Wichita native Sheinelle Jones. Several University of Wichita students participated in the sit-in, which is increasingly recognized as a landmark event in the Civil Rights Movement.

   Wichita State students led 1958 sit-in at whites-only lunch counter

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   What happened at the Dockum Drug Store sit-in in Wichita?

   • NBC Today (2021) The Dockum Drug Store sit-in in Wichita charted new territory in the battle for civil rights. The Wichita Eagle (2021) She’s a proud one-time Wichitan and a 1996 graduate of Heights High School.

   Wichita State students led 1958 sit-in at whites-only lunch counter

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   Does Dockum Drug Store serve African Americans?

   • The Dockum Drug Store, like many of the other popular eateries in downtown Wichita, refused to serve African Americans at the counter. If they wished to purchase food in the restaurant, they had to order it at the end of the counter, and take it to go.

   Dockum Drug Store Sit-In - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical

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4. www.kshs.org › kansapedia › dockum-drug-store-sit-inDockum Drug Store Sit-In - Kansas Historical Society

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   When the Dockum Drug Store sit-in first happened in July 1958, few heard about it or recognized its importance. The sit-in was a student-led effort to end segregation. The two local daily newspapers published little about it, avoiding the negative association with the protest.

5. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2021/02/06Wichita, Kansas lunch counter sit-in at Dockum Drug Store by ...

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   Feb 6, 2021 · By Kate Torgovnick May. February 6, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EST. A newspaper clipping from the Aug. 7, 1958, issue of the Enlightener, a Black newspaper in Wichita shows the Dockum Drug Store lunch...

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7. www.wichita.edu › news › 2021Wichita State students led 1958 sit-in at whites-only lunch ...

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   She’s a proud one-time Wichitan and a 1996 graduate of Heights High School. But still, says Sheinelle Jones — the co-host of NBC’s News’ third hour of “Today” — until a couple of weeks ago, she’d never heard about the famous Dockum Drug Store sit-inthat happened in her hometown in 1958.

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   They were determined. Prepared. Well-dressed and polite. Patient beyond their years. Most of all, they were focused on change. Almost 62 years ago now, a group of African-American youth and young adults, members of Wichita’s NAACP Youth Council, stood up together — or rather sat down — in peaceful protest of segregation in Wichita.

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   This year is the 60th anniversary of the first successful student-led sit-in of the modern civil rights movement. And it didn’t happen in the South, but rather in the heart of the Midwest: in Wichita. It was 1958, and 20-year-old Ron Walters and his cousin, 19-year-old Carol Parks Hahn, decided something had to be done about the whites-only lunch c...

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8. www.npr.org › 2006/10/21 › 6355095Kansas Sit-In Gets Its Due at Last : NPR

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   Oct 21, 2006 · In 1958, the whites-only lunch counter at the Dockum Drugstore, on the corner of Broadway and Douglas in dowtown Wichita, KS., was the site of the first student-led sit-in in the nation....

9. www.kmuw.org › history › 2018/08/10'Hope For The Future': The Dockum Sit-In, Sixty Years On

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   Aug 10, 2018 · The Dockum Drug Store in 1955, three years before the sit-in. This year is the 60th anniversary of the first successful student-led sit-in of the modern civil rights movement. And it...