Articoli correlati a Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the...

Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 - Rilegato

Eick, Gretchen Cassel

 
9780252026836: Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72

Sinossi

On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites-only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit-in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national NAACP's instructions. Based on interviews with over eighty participants and observers of this sit-in, Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in an unexpected locus of the civil rights movement, revealing that the movement was a national, not a southern, phenomenon.

Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.

Informazioni sull'autore

 
Gretchen Cassel Eick, a professor of history at Friends University, Wichita, has received two Fulbright fellowships and was for ten years a professional lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
 

Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.