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Prisca Barnes
The Dockum Drugstore Sit-in
In July 1958, Black students gathered at downtown Wichita's Dockum Drugstore to stage a peaceful protest against the unequal practice of segregation. What happened during the three-week sit-in?
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Beverley Olson Buller
William Allen White and the KKK In Kansas
The tumultuous 1924 Kansas Gubernatorial campaign was the time William Allen White chased the Ku Klux Klan out of Kansas.
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Valerie Mendoza
Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality Before and After Brown V. Board
This presentation looks at the ways the Latino communities banded together to fight discrimination and demand equal protection under the law, focusing special attention on Kansas examples.
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Ray Mizumura-Pence
The Disability Rights Movement
In the 1960s, people with disabilities and their allies fought to ensure full citizenship and civil rights to a population often overlooked or approached with pity.
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Brandon West
Pride: From Stonewall to Small Town Kansas
The social revolution commonly known as Pride has deep connections to Kansas, and today more Kansans and their communities are welcoming their LGBTQ neighbors and friends.
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Carmaletta Williams
Free Did Not Mean Welcome
Discover how many realized that for Black people in Kansas “free” did not necessarily mean “welcome
Prisca Barnes
The Dockum Drugstore Sit-in
In July 1958, Black students gathered at downtown Wichita's Dockum Drugstore to stage a peaceful protest against the unequal practice of segregation. What happened during the three-week sit-in?
Speaker Details
Beverley Olson Buller
William Allen White and the KKK In Kansas
The tumultuous 1924 Kansas Gubernatorial campaign was the time William Allen White chased the Ku Klux Klan out of Kansas.
Speaker Details
Valerie Mendoza
Beyond Brown: Mexican Struggles for Equality Before and After Brown V. Board
This presentation looks at the ways the Latino communities banded together to fight discrimination and demand equal protection under the law, focusing special attention on Kansas examples.
Speaker Details
Ray Mizumura-Pence
The Disability Rights Movement
In the 1960s, people with disabilities and their allies fought to ensure full citizenship and civil rights to a population often overlooked or approached with pity.
Speaker Details
Brandon West
Pride: From Stonewall to Small Town Kansas
The social revolution commonly known as Pride has deep connections to Kansas, and today more Kansans and their communities are welcoming their LGBTQ neighbors and friends.
Speaker Details
Carmaletta Williams
Free Did Not Mean Welcome
Discover how many realized that for Black people in Kansas “free” did not necessarily mean “welcome