The Brave, but Forgotten, Kansas Lunch Counter Sit-In that Helped Change America - Word&Way

The Brave, but Forgotten, Kansas Lunch Counter Sit-In that Helped Change America

This was the start of the first successful student-led sit-in of the civil rights movement, a protest that would last three weeks. It led the popular drugstore chain, Rexall, to change its segregation policy across the state of Kansas, and started a chain of events that led to the Greensboro sit-in 19 months later. Still, few people outside Wichita — even many inside it — have any idea this happened.

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