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Transcript: Letters: Sit-Ins, Steve Wynn
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SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
10-28-2006
Letters: Sit-Ins, Steve Wynn
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 13:00-14:00 PM
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SCOTT SIMON, host:
Time now for your letters. Our story last week about the 1958 Dockum Drugstore sit-ins in Wichita, Kansas prompted many letters. The story by reporter Carla Eckels suggested that the sit-ins set a precedent for more visible civil rights sit-ins in the 1960s. Many listeners wrote in to point out even earlier precedents. Sharon Wood from Omaha wrote, The most famous earlier sit-ins began in 1943, in NPR's own backyard. Led by Pauli Murray, they desegregated the Little Palace Cafeteria and Thompson's Restaurant, both near Howard University.
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