Vital disobedience
Clara Luper blazed trails with a nonviolent sit-in movement, but 60 years later, there is still progress to be made.
By Ben Luschen
Tags: Metro, sit-ins, civil rights, Marilyn Luper Hildreth, Clara Luper, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council, NAACP Youth Council, Katz Drug Store, Tommy “Big Bud” Barnett, Minute Men Commandos, Larry Jeffries, Oklahoma History Center, Frontline Church, Kaiser’s Grateful Bean Cafe, Bruce Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, Dunjee High School, Oklahoma City Police Department, Jahruba Lambeth, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Jabee, Black Lives Matter Oklahoma, T. Sheri Dickerson, Black Lives Matter