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I wasn’t educated in Kansas, but most of the Civil Rights discussions we had in school focused on the deep South. A book like today’s Book of the Day, Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest by Gretchen Cassel Eick, is beneficial to those intrested in what the attitudes towards race and events of the movement looked like right here in Kansas. The focus of this book serves as a reminder that important activities in the prime of the Civil Rights Movement happened well outside of the more prevalently documented cases in places like Alabama or Mississippi. With interviews of witnesses and activists, this book can bring added demension to race relations and the Civil Rights Movements of the 1950s through 70s.