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Kate Torgovnick May

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  • A newspaper clipping from the Aug. 7, 1958, issue of the Enlightener, a Black newspaper in Wichita shows the Dockum Drug Store lunch counter sit-in, one of the earliest in the United States.

    The Brave, Forgotten Kansas Lunch Counter Sit-in That Helped Change America

    The 1958 civil rights protest by Black teens led to the end of segregation at lunch counters all over the state and inspired a wave of sit-ins across the country.
    by Kate Torgovnick May via Retropolis on February 6, 2021
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