Dockum Drug Store sit-in

Dockum Drug Store sit-in
Dockum Drug Store sit-in
Part of the Civil Rights Movement
Date	July 19 – August 11, 1958; (3 weeks and 2 days)
Location	Dockum Drug Store,; SE corner of Douglas and Broadway,; Wichita, Kansas, United States; 37°41′09″N 97°20′08″W / 37.68596°N 97.33548°W
Caused by	"Whites only" lunch counters at various stores in Wichita, Kansas.; Racial segregation in public accommodations.;
Resulted in	Catalyst of Oklahoma City Katz Drug sit-in.; Desegregation of Dockum Drug Store in Wichita, then all Dockum stores in Kansas.;
Parties
Students;	Lunch counter at Dockum Drug Store;
Lead figures
	Participants Ron Walters; Carol Parks; Daisy M. "Blue"; Galyn Vesey; 30 to 40 total; Dockum Drug Store TBD;

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.^[1] The protest began on July 19, 1958 in downtown Wichita, Kansas, at a Dockum Drug Store (a store in the old Rexall chain), in which protesters would sit at the counter all day until the store closed, ignoring taunts from counter-protesters. The sit-in ended three weeks later when the owner relented and agreed to serve black patrons.^[1] Though it wasn't the first sit-in, it is notable for happening before the well known 1960 Greensboro sit-ins.

^ ^a ^b Hevesi, Dennis. "Ronald Walters, Rights Leader and Scholar, Dies at 72", The New York Times, September 14, 2010.

[NYT-1] Hevesi, Dennis. "Ronald Walters, Rights Leader and Scholar, Dies at 72", The New York Times, September 14, 2010.

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