Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 - Tapa dura

Eick, Gretchen Cassel

 
9780252026836: Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72

Sinopsis

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 black activism in an unexpected locus of the civil rights movement, revealing that the movement was a national, not a southern, phenomenon.

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Gretchen Cassel Eick, a professor of history at Friends University, Wichita, has received two Fulbright grants and was for ten years a professional lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

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9780252074912: Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72

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ISBN 10:  0252074912 ISBN 13:  9780252074912
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2007
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