willing to arrange a meeting for our attorney who was one of our mentors, talking about attorney chet lewis and shortly thereafter, he called the store, made arrangements to have an interview with the owner of the dockum drugstore and i'm not sure we ever came back to work after that. >> we were the first to start this and the rexall stores all over our country integrated as a result of what we did here in wichita, and we didn't know this at first, but eventually it came out that this is what their policy was all over the nation. rexall stores would not segregate to customers. >> there was one article in the white newspaper and at some point, there was an article in the black newspaper. for the most part, it wasn't talked about. it was almost as though the proponents and the antagonists were working together to keep it as quiet as possible. but for different reasons. but in and of itself, it was a small piece of a mosaic puzzle that was necessary. it was a part, i don't want to belittle it, but it took greensboro, it took oklahoma city, it took st. louis as well as wichita to finally get ju

talking about attorney chet lewis. and shortly thereafter i think attorney lewis called the store, made arrangements to have an interview with the owner of the dockum drugstore. and i'm not sure we ever came back to work after that.