Dissent in Wichita--the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72.(Book Review)

From: The Oral History Review | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

By Gretchen Cassel Eick. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 312 pp. Hardbound $39.95.

For those of us who lived through the 1960s, every evening television brought us face-to-face with news and details of the Civil Rights Movement. We became familiar with the sit-ins, riots, and protests against racism that occurred in North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, California, and possibly in our own communities, and we came to recognize names of individuals like Martin Luther King, Jr., George Wallace, and others associated with those turbulent times. If one had ...

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