An exhibit featuring the story of the 1958 Dockum Drugstore sit-in in Wichita, Kansas, will be on display at the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library Main Library through December 14. The Dockum sit-in was the first successful student-led sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th Century, occurring two years before the famed Greensboro sit-in.
Through visual presentations and hands-on interactives, visitors of “People, Pride, and Promise” will get to know the little-known story of the Dockum Sit-in. The exhibit features a replica lunch counter along with images from a children’s book bearing the same name as the exhibit that was also published to commemorate this momentous year.
A documentary of the same name will be shown at the Main Library at 6:00 pm on December 4, followed by a discussion with Dr. Galyn A. Vesey, one of the original participants of the sit-in. The Main Library is located at 625 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, Kansas. More information can be found on the library’s programming calendar at kckpl.org.
People, Pride, and Promise: The Story of the Dockum sit-in exhibit was developed by Storytime Village and supported, in part, by Humanities Kansas.
The library can be found online at kckpl.org