Saw this from @JMitchellNews: 66 yrs ago today, NAACP Youth Council began sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters .. these were in Oklahoma City.
But they had begun in KANSAS, before that:
On April 15, 1948 White and black students from the KU chapter of the Committee on Racial Equality (CORE) held a sit-in at Brick’s Cafe. Like many other Lawrence establishments, Brick's Cafe refused to serve African-Americans.
Brick's Cafe was selected because of its proximity to campus and the fact that it depended upon the business of students-a group that was often more friendly towards racial integration.The campus newspaper reported that Lawrence police stood by while 15-20 white males physically removed the protesters from the restaurant.
e.g. 'White counter-protesters physically ejected the black and white members of CORE, leading to one injury when a demonstrator was pushed down the stairs'
Full article here:
Sit-ins at Brick's Cafe to Protest Racial Discrimination, Lawrence KS, 1948
....and then JUST A FEW CLICKs later we have this:
...as reported in NPR: Letters: Sit-Ins, Steve Wynn
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.
Gail Beal from Marshall, Texas described a 1942 sit-in in Chicago. It occurred at the Jack Spratt Coffee Shop, led by James Farmer and Jimmie Robinson, who would form the Congress of Racial Equality to continue the fight for civil rights for all Americans. The sit-ins lasted several weeks, until the owners agreed to serve all patrons. Mr. Farmer died in 1999, but Jimmie Robinson is still living in New York City.
So forget all your 60’s timeline those were a generation later!