• 1958
• July
• business
• Civil Rights
• non-violence
• Witchita
• Kansas
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Witchita, Kansas - 20 year-old Ron Walters began one of the first sit-in protests against segregation. He had the help of his 19-year-old cousin, Carol Parks-Hahn. It took place at Dockum Drug Store (southeast corner of Douglas and Broadway).

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• 1966
• July
• riots
• Cleveland
• Ohio
• Lyndon B. Johnson

Cleveland, Ohio - The Seventy-Niner's Café was the location of the most violent race riot in Cleveland history.

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• 1964
• July
• riots
• Harlem
• New York
• Lyndon B. Johnson

Harlem, New York - The Harlem riot lasted 6 days and spread to Brooklyn. It began after a white New York police worker killed a Black American teenager.

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