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-1958 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1186156054902876/?type=3
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