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October 9, 2020

The Dockum Drugstore Sit-in

bySusan Hawksworth

The Smoky Hill Museum is having a special Zoom presentation on November 5 at 5:30 p.m. which you can enjoy from the comfort of your own home. Prisca Barnes will discuss the July 1958 Wichita Dockum Drugstore sit-in, a peaceful protest against the city’s practice of segregation. Learn what happened, how it ended and how these protests helped transform the struggle for racial equality. Barnes is the founder of Storytime Village, a nonprofit promoting reading among low-income children. 

This presentation is online only. The Museum and store will be closed. Send your email to museum@salina.org to reserve your place.

The Smoky Hill Museum is a nationally accredited history museum, in the heart of downtown Salina, Kansas. This FREE museum is open Tuesday-Friday 11-4 and Saturday 10-4. Also, be sure to stop by the Museum Store for a wide variety of regional and Kansas products, local artwork and gifts for all ages.

 

Special thanks to our sponsors:

  • Friends of the Museum

  • For Step Up to the Task exhibit and Street Fair

  • For Step Up to the Task exhibit, the Growing a Community platform and Street Fair

  • Brinegar

    For Step Up to the Task exhibit

  • Citywide Storage

    For A Place to Call Home traveling exhibit

  • Exline

    For A Place to Call Home traveling exhibit

  • Mid-Kansas Title

    For A Place to Call Home traveling exhibit

  • Waters Hardware

    For A Place to Call Home traveling exhibit

  • For the From Sod to Stone area

  • For the Industry On the Move case

  • Roy & Donice Applequist

    For Street Fair

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  • Ragnarok LARP

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