Dockum Drug Store sit-in

When

1958

Kind

Protest

Coordinates

37.69° N, 97.34° W

Description

1958 US civil rights protest

Date from

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1958 US civil rights protest

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, in which protesters would sit at the counter all day until the store closed, ignoring taunts from counter-protesters.

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