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During the Civil Rights movement, the late scholar Ronald Walters helped lead a sit-in that desegregated the Dockum Drug Store. Now his hometown of Wichita, Kan., is naming a library after him.
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This year is the 60th anniversary of the first successful student-led sit-in of the modern civil rights movement. And it didn’t happen in the South, but…
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The design of Wichita's Dockum Sit-in Memorial was unveiled Saturday at The Kansas African American Museum's Trailblazer event.The 1958 Dockum drug store…
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The Wichita Public Library is hosting a series of programs this year looking at issues of race and ethnicity, particularly in relation to law enforcement.…
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Months-old vandalism on the Dockum Sit-in sculpture in downtown Wichita is affecting plans for future memorials to the historic protest in civil rights…
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The Kansas Institute of African-American and Native-American Family History is holding its annual forum about the Dockum Sit-In this weekend.A panel of…
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The Kansas Health Foundation, the state’s largest philanthropic organization, gave the Kansas African-American Museum a $50,000 grant on Thursday to…