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- catalog abstract ""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 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.". "Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in this unexpected locus of the civil rights movement. Based on interviews with more than eighty participants in and observers of Wichita's civil rights struggles, this powerful study hones in on the work of black and white local activists, setting their efforts in the context of anticommunism, FBI operations against black nationalists, and the civil rights policies of administrations from Eisenhower through Nixon.". "Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12433704.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Wichita (Kan.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Dissent in Wichita traces the contours of race relations and black activism in this unexpected locus of the civil rights movement. Based on interviews with more than eighty participants in and observers of Wichita's civil rights struggles, this powerful study hones in on the work of black and white local activists, setting their efforts in the context of anticommunism, FBI operations against black nationalists, and the civil rights policies of administrations from Eisenhower through Nixon.".".
- catalog description ""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 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.".".
- catalog description ""Through her close study of events in Wichita, Eick reveals the civil rights movement as a national, not a southern, phenomenon. She focuses particularly on Chester I. Lewis, Jr., a key figure in the local as well as the national NAACP. Lewis initiated one of the earliest investigations of de facto school desegregation by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and successfully challenged employment discrimination in the nation's largest aircraft industries."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "1. The Dockum Sit-In -- 2. The Context -- 3. The Wichita NAACP -- 4. Black and White Together -- 5. Taking on the Giants: Employment, Public Accommodations, and Fair Housing -- 6. Chester Lewis's National Arena in 1964 -- 7. The Gap Widens -- 8. Access and Alienation -- 9. Things Fall Apart, 1968 -- 10. The Schools: A Bittersweet Victory -- 11. Blooming and Fading.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 312 p., [10] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0252026837".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "Kansas Wichita".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "Wichita (Kan.) Race relations.".
- catalog subject "978.1/86 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Kansas Wichita History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements Kansas Wichita History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "F689.W6 E75 2001".
- catalog subject "Lewis, Chester I.".
- catalog subject "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Dockum Sit-In -- 2. The Context -- 3. The Wichita NAACP -- 4. Black and White Together -- 5. Taking on the Giants: Employment, Public Accommodations, and Fair Housing -- 6. Chester Lewis's National Arena in 1964 -- 7. The Gap Widens -- 8. Access and Alienation -- 9. Things Fall Apart, 1968 -- 10. The Schools: A Bittersweet Victory -- 11. Blooming and Fading.".
- catalog title "Dissent in Wichita : the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72 / Gretchen Cassel Eick.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".