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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 ...
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 ...
The design for a $3.6 million, bronze monument commemorating the Katz Drug Store sit-in, in the heart of downtown, was announced Wednesday. 'My mother would be joyous,' says Clara Luper's daughter ...
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Record group: Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2004 (National Archives Identifier: 350)Series: Civil Case Files, compiled 1939 - 1967 (National Archives Identifier: 584939)
The Katz Drug Store sit-in began in Oklahoma City in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, where businesses were allowed by law to refuse service to African-Americans. Schoolteacher Clara Luper , her daughter and 11 students sat down at the drug store's lunch counter and ordered 13 soft drinks and, after being refused service, stayed at the counter for ...
Lumi paid to have a replica sign created from scratch for Katz Drug Store with its bow-tied black cat. ... The Lumi Museum purchased it Wednesday from neon artist Thomas Cobian, 67, who acquired ...