Sixty-four years ago today, more than 70 people took to the Anna Maude Cafeteria in Oklahoma City to protest segregation and Jim Crow laws.
The protest was led by history teacher and NAACP Youth Council Advisor Clara Luper and was just part of several sit-in protests at the time.
Luper also led the famous sit-in at the Katz Drug Store in 1958.
Just a few days after the Katz sit-in, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, jailed and kicked by city police during a nonviolent protest in Montgomery, Alabama…