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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 ...
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.
On July 7, 1948, at 3:45 p.m., Edna Griffin, her infant daughter Phyllis, John Bibbs, and Leonard Hudson entered the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines, Iowa, and ordered ice cream at the lunch counter. The manager refused to serve them, saying, "It is the policy of our store that we don't serve colored."
A year later, Luper and 13 of her students staged their first sit-in protest against segregation at Katz Drug Store on Aug. 19, 1958, where they asked for cokes. They returned to Katz day after ...
Katz Drugs entered the market during World War One, using the phrase “Katz Pays the Tax” in response to a wartime excise tax. It was a smart ploy, and it wasn’t long before that cool Katz ...
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Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist.Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v.
A Katz Drug Store and the John A. Brown's and J.C Penney's department stores are pictured in Capitol Hill when this photo was taken in 1951. ... Looking back at the history of Capitol Hill ...