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

Eick, Gretchen Cassel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252026837 ISBN 13 : 9780252026836

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252026837
• ISBN 13: 9780252026836
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible