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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 ...
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-FS104; Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
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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."
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 ...
The struggle to make Capitol Hill one of Oklahoma City's hot spot districts remains elusive even though dates revival efforts date back 50 years. ... A Katz Drug Store and the John A. Brown's and ...
The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). [1] The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights ...