Dissent in Wichita: the Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72

Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954–1972 (University of Illinois Press, 2001/2007/2023)

a ground-breaking study of the civil rights movement outside the South, won the Richard Wentworth Award, the Hall Center Award for best book by a Kansas author, and the William Rockhill Nelson Award for the best book by a Kansas or Missouri author. $6000 in prize money came with those awards.

This book is cited in the Smithsonian's Museum of African American History and Culture for its coverage of the first successful student led sit-in, which took place in the summer of 1958 in Wichita, Kansas and influenced young Americans in the South to begin a flood of sit-ins eighteen months later.