Dockum Drug Store Sit-In oral history interviews

These interviews were videotapes, and the tapes were incorporated into an award-winning hour-long program for KPTS called “The Dockum Sit-In: A Legacy of Courage”. The documentary incorporates firsthand accounts from the sit-in participants, Kansas historians, and local civil rights advocates. The video-recorded interviews were also used to create the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum’s exhibit “Standing Up by Sitting-In: The Dockum Sit-In of 1958.”

Interviewees include: Prentice Lewis, Peggy Hatcher Wesley, Arlene Harris Ruffin, Galyn Vesey, Karen Phillips Ware, Lequetta Glass Diggs, Robert Newby, Carol Parks Hahn, Ronald Walters, Joan Smith Williams, Rosie E. Hughes, and Mary Gardner.   The Amistad Research Center is among multiple archival repositories holding copies of these interviews, with other institutions including the Wichita-Sedgwick County HIstorical Museum, the Kansas State Historical Society, and the Kansas African American Museum.