OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Wednesday marks a massive anniversary in the nation’s civil rights movement. Nearly seven decades ago, local schoolteacher Clara Luper and 13 children sat at the segregated Katz Drug Store counter in a fight for desegregation.
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It’s been 68 years since Luper spearheaded the national sit-in movement at the Oklahoma City drug store on Aug. 19, 1958, which opened the door to freedom for those too long ignored.
“This is a wonderful day because it represents a change in history,” Marilyn Luper Hildreth, Clara Luper’s daughter, said.
It was a pivotal point for equal rights in an era where equal rights didn’t exist…