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In 1958, Ronald Walters and Carole Watson, Kansas college students, united against segregation by participating in sit-ins at the Dockum Drug store lunch counter in Wichita, Kansas. Walter led 40 students in desegregating the establishment, predating the Greensboro protests. These Wichita protests were often overlooked due to Northern editors downplaying local race issues. On August 7, the manager ordered the waitresses to serve them, ending the sit-in quietly. https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2010-03-04

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<img src="https://www.sumnernewscow.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Youth-sit-in.png" alt="The Dockum Drugstore sit-in and its historical significance was presented  at Sumner County Historic Society – Sumner NewsCow">

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On July 23rd, 1968, a violent shootout between Cleveland police and the Black Nationalists of New Libya in Glenville spiraled into chaos that lasted for five days.

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The march on Washington DC on Aug 28, 1963. a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections

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Harlem race riot of 1964, a six-day period of rioting that started on July 18, 1964, in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem after a white off-duty police officer shot and killed an African American teenager.

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Once the Movement took hold in the Bay Area, it brought together people from all races and backgrounds to fight against the social injustice that had become so ingrained in society

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the fight for redress and reparations for Japanese American internment and the occipation of Alcatraz island

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Rose parks was arrested on December 1 ,1955 because she didn't want to stand on the bus for the white women

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the freedom rides were met with violence and arrests as activists challenged segregation on interstate buses and facilities in the south