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Fifty Years Ago, Black Activists Stood Up to Discrimination by Sitting Downnew

When 13 youths requested equal service at Katz Drug Store on Aug. 19, 1958, they tipped off what some say were the first major sustained sit-ins in the American civil rights movement.
Oklahoma Gazette  |  Emily Jerman  |  08-06-2008  |  Race & Class

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