Movement Makers: Clara Luper Plaza honors Oklahoma City sit-in that helped desegregate Katz Stores
OKLAHOMA CITY – Sixty-seven years after a group of kids started a sit-in protest for equal rights in Oklahoma City, their impact on the civil rights movement is being recognized.
In 1958, teacher Clara Luper and 13 members of the NAACP Youth Council went to Katz Drug Store at the corner of Main St. and Robinson in downtown OKC…