Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara ...

A sculpture that depicts the start of the historic Oklahoma City sit-in movement was lifted by crane and installed at a downtown site on Monday. The 8,000 pound bronze sculpture traveled from ...

During Black History Month, KOCO is honoring those who made a difference in Oklahoma, and there is perhaps no bigger name in the state's history than "Luper." On Tuesday, there was a deeply personal ...

A man restores a statue honoring a lunch counter sit-in in 1958 Oklahoma during the Civil Rights Movement at the Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza in downtown Oklahoma City on Dec. 8, 2025. (Photo by ...

A monument dedicated to a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement is now complete in downtown OKC. The life-sized bronze sculpture captures a scene from the Katz Drug Store Sit-In that happened in ...

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Franklin McCain, one of the “Greensboro Four” who sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina, sparking the sit-in movement in the 1960s, has died, NPR reports. Suggested Reading 13 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR)— On Saturday, thousands gathered downtown in Oklahoma City for the dedication of the Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza. Schoolteacher Clara Luper, an Oklahoma City youth and ...

It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara Luper was 35 and a mother of three. Active in the Civil Rights Movement ...

A monument dedicated to a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement is now complete in downtown OKC. The life-sized bronze sculpture captures a scene from the Katz Drug Store Sit-In that happened in ...