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The Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first sit-ins during the civil rights movement, occurring between August 19 and August 21, 1958, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.In protest of racial discrimination, black schoolchildren sat at a lunch counter with their teacher demanding food, refusing to leave until they were served.
In 1948, Edna Griffith and her family were denied service at a Katz Drugstore in Des Moines, Iowa, which led to sit-ins and protests. In 1949 the Iowa Supreme Court determined Katz was in violation of the state's civil rights law. The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first protests of its kind during the civil rights movement ...
Outraged members of the community responded with sit-ins and picketing directed at Katz and other local lunch counters that refused to serve people because of race. The Polk County Attorney's Office prosecuted the Katz manager under Iowa's only civil rights law, a criminal statute prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations. The manager ...
Series: Civil Case Files, compiled 1939 - 1967 (National Archives Identifier: 584939) File unit: Beulah Sweeney v. Katz Drug Company, 1950 - 1950 (National Archives Identifier: 283619) NAIL Control Number: NRE-21-KANSFSCIV-CIV27-FS106; Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
A few weeks later on August 19, 1958, in Oklahoma City, a nationally recognized sit-in at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter occurred. The Oklahoma City Sit-in Movement was led by NAACP Youth Council leader Clara Luper, a local high school teacher, and young local students, including Luper's eight-year-old daughter, who suggested the sit-in be ...
Billy Crystal is revisiting the site of pop culture history. The actor recently dined at Katz's Delicatessen in New York City, marking his first return to the iconic eatery since filming one of ...
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Two days later, Katz corporate management in Kansas City desegregated its lunch counters in three states. [14] [15] The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in had been suggested by Luper's eight-year-old daughter and occurred a year and a half before the February 1, 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. It was the first sit-in of the civil rights ...