Dockum Sit-In: The First Victory Nobody Knows Or Wichita's Forgotten Civil Rights Victory In July 1958, two years before the famous Greensboro sit-ins, a group of teenagers in Wichita, Kansas, organized what became the first successful student-led lunch counter sit-in of the Civil Rights era. Ronald Walters (20) and his cousin Carol Parks-Hahn (19), president and treasurer of the Wichita NAACP Youth Council, led 12 students into Dockum Drug Store on July 19, 1958. For three weeks, they sat quiet

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