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Stories for All brings together over forty community and University of Kansas partner projects. This page enables you to identify partner projects that interest you and takes you to their websites.

You can search and filter projects by topic, partner, or digital genre. Please contact storiesforall@ku.edu if you have any difficulties.

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Dockum Drug Store Sit-In Virtual Reality Project

Ebony Clemons-Ajibolade

Past President of the Board, The Kansas African American Museum Kansas African American Museum

Denise Sherman

Executive Director, The Kansas African American Museum Kansas African American Museum

On July 19, 1958, a group of Wichita students began a movement, the Dockum Drug Store Sit-In, that would become a critical moment in the history of ending segregation. The student activists exhibited the attributes, characteristics, and skills of emerging leaders. Through their planning, preparation, organization, commitment, respect, and dedication, they effected change during a very volatile time.

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