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Wichita site of one of first successful lunch counter sit-ins will get memorial

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WICHITA — The site of an important civil rights sit-in in 1958 in Wichita will be getting a memorial for the first time.

Young black protesters sat at the lunch counter in the Dockum Drug Store in July 1958. After three weeks of sit-ins, the drug store agreed to serve the black students at the counter, the Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1U4N62F ). It is considered one of the first successful lunch counter sit-ins in the nation that eventually helped lead to ...


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