| Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 Contributor(s): Eick, Gretchen Cassel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252074912 ISBN-13: 9780252074912 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
| Dewey: 978.186 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.39" W x 8.99" (1.01 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Cultural Region - Heartland - Geographic Orientation - Kansas - Locality - Wichata, Kansas - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |