Two years before the Greensboro 4 gained national attention and made history for their series of non-violent sit-ins at Woolworth Department Stores Greensboro, NC, which eventually led to which led to the chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States, a group of young adults in Wichita, KS created a stir of their own that is virtually unknown.

In the summer of 1958, two dozen young people from the Wichita Branch NAACP Youth Council staged what would become the first successful student-led sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement. By August 11, 1958, they had desegregated the Dockum Drug Store lunch counter and all Rexall Drug Stores throughout the State of Kansas. This film documents their courageous efforts with the Dockum Sit-in.

The entire documentary is courtesy of PBS.

 

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