On this day, 11 August 1958, young African Americans in Wichita, Kansas won a key early successful sit-in protest against segregated lunch counters. Black students and young people sat at the counter in the Dockum’s Drug Store in rotating shifts of 30 minutes to 2 hours, blocking sales and facing down police and racist harassment for 23 days until they won. After this victory, sit-ins spread rapidly across the Jim Crow states and desegregated many eateries. More info in this short history: https://libcom.org/history/wichita-students-sit-us-civil-rights-1958https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1186156054902876/?type=3
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
— Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms (via philosophybits)
