Ronald Walters: Organized One of the Nation’s First Lunch-Counter Sit-Ins

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Ronald Walters: Organized One of the Nation’s First Lunch-Counter Sit-Ins

Ronald Walters is remembered as an author, political consultant, and a scholar. He is also recognized for organizing the Dockum Drug Store sit-in in 1958 when he served as president of the Wichita NAACP Youth Council. Walters was born July 20, 1938, in Wichita, Kansas. His father was a career Army officer and later a […]

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