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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 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.".
"Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in this unexpected locus of the civil rights movement. Based on interviews with more than eighty participants in and observers of Wichita's civil rights struggles, this powerful study hones in on the work of black and white local activists, setting their efforts in the context of anticommunism, FBI operations against black nationalists, and the civil rights policies of administrations from Eisenhower through Nixon.".
"Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries."--BOOK JACKET.
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African Americans, Biography, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, History, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Race relations, United states, race relations, Wichita (kan.), Civil rights movements, united states, National association for the advancement of colored people, African americans, civil rights, African americans, kansasPeople
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Dissent in Wichita: the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72
2008, University of Illinois Press
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Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72
August 27, 2007, University of Illinois Press
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Dissent in Wichita: the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72
2001, University of Illinois Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.
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