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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Ronald Walters was known for politics, as a member of Jesse Jackson s two presidential campaigns, as an author, a celebrated teacher of political science at Howard University. He also led a sit-in in his hometown of Wichita, Kan., nearly two years before the famed Greensboro sit-ins. And as member station KMUW s Carla Eckels reports, Wichita is honoring the late Ronald Walters with a library and by making it a connection to historically Black colleges (ph).
CARLA ECKELS, BYLINE: A crane lifts the nearly 2-foot letters into the air spelling out Dr. Ronald W. Walters name on the new branch library. What s less known is his leadership of the 1958 Dockum sit-in with his cousin Carol Parks-Hahn. They knew Black people weren t allowed to sit down at the Dockum counter, but actually seeing it had an impact on them. Parks-Hahn remembers going to the counter with her aunt.
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The 1958 civil rights protest by Black teens at a Wichita drug store led to the end of segregation at lunch counters all over the state and inspired a wave of sit-ins across the country.
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