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Katz focused on low-cost branding, and they quickly grew to 65 stores in 5 states. At their peak, they generated over $100 million in annual sales and employed over 3,000 people. Self-service chain stores became more popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so Katz began losing market share.
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.
Des Moines Katz Drugstore protests: Des Moines, Iowa [17] 1953 Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland: 1954 Dresden Dresden, Ontario, Canada [18] January 20, 1955 Read's Drug Store Baltimore, Maryland [19] [20] [note 3] June 23, 1957 Royal Ice Cream sit-in: Durham, North Carolina [21] [note 4] July 19, 1958 Dockum Drug Store sit-in: Wichita, Kansas [22 ...
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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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 ...
Both Katz on Main and Wonderland remain under construction. Five Lux Living projects in Kansas City have been approved for incentives since 2021, including a $200 million apartment/hotel at 14th ...
Barbara Ann Posey Jones (born 1943) is an American economist who was a leader of the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in as a high school student. [1] Since 1971, she has been a professor of economics, department head, and Dean at several historically Black Colleges and Universities in the American South.