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Kansas sit-in preceded Woolworth's

Over 50 years ago, a group of students from the local NAACP chapter sat down at the counter at Dockum's Drug Store in Wichita, Kansas. Jim Axelrod spoke with a few members of the group on how that day changed history in the civil rights movement. 

Read entire article at CBS News