Dissent in WichitaWinner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, Byron Caldwell Smith Book Prize, and the William Rockhill Nelson Award On a hot summer evening in 1958, a group of African American students in Wichita, Kansas, quietly entered Dockum's Drug Store and sat down at the whites only lunch counter. This was the beginning of the first sustained, successful student sit in of the modern civil rights movement, instigated in violation of the national