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

Eick, Gretchen Cassel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252074912 ISBN 13: 9780252074912

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252074912
• ISBN 13: 9780252074912
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
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