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NewsOK.com
November 26, 2008
Fifty years after she began a peaceful fight against racial segregation,
Clara Luper remains a beacon of light for
Oklahoma City. ...
Seattle Times
November 26, 2008
Civil rights activist
Clara Luper, who participated in a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown
Oklahoma City in 1958, was honored at halftime of ...
MarketWatch
November 7, 2008
African Americans produced some of the country's greatest personalities such as Charlie
Christian, jazz musician, and
Clara Luper, civil rights leader. ...
Chickasha Express Star
October 31, 2008
Marilyn Luper Hildreth and her mother Clara Luper, who is said to be the mother of the Civil Rights Movement shared their story of the struggles of being ...
Chickasha Express Star
October 26, 2008
... daughter of
Clara Luper and an instigator in one of the first civil right protests in
the United States, Bob Dixson, mayor of Greensburg, Kans., ...
NewsOK.com
October 18, 2008
She also won the news category with her story, "
Clara Luper," on Feb. 22. →Oklahoman
sports columnist Jenni Carlson took third-place honors in the sports ...
OKC Business
October 8, 2008
Maria Perez, an OCU Clara Luper Scholar, said she learned about the scholarship while taking part in several programs at the Latino Community Development ...
Edmond Sun
September 19, 2008
... took place in downtown
Oklahoma City at a Katz drugstore that 13 young blacks and their adult leader,
Clara Luper sat patiently waiting to be served. ...
Edmond Sun
August 25, 2008
19, 1958, a courageous woman named
Clara Luper led 13
children in a sit-in at Katz Drug Store in
Oklahoma City and launched a national movement against ...
NewsOK.com
August 20, 2008
When Clara Luper's 13 youths sat down at the Katz lunch counter in 1958, about 1 in 10 Oklahomans were nonwhite, according to the census. ...
KFOR
August 19, 2008
Oklahoma civil rights leader
Clara Luper and others who participated in the nonviolent sit-in gathered Tuesday at the Oklahoma History Center. ...
KSBI 52
August 19, 2008
August 19, 1958 is the day
Clara Luper and 13 members of the
NAACP Youth Council proceeded to make history. Participants say they can't believe refusing to ...
KTOK
August 18, 2008
By Jerry Bohnen Little did
Clara Luper and her young
children who belonged to the
NAACP Youth
organization ever wonder that what they did on August 19, ...
KTOK
August 12, 2008
Fifty years after she made the suggestion to her mother Clara Luper, Marilyn Luper-Hildreth remains firm in her convictions of what they did in sparking a ...
NAACP (press release)
August 11, 2008
It was led by
NAACP youth leader
Clara Luper, a local high school teacher, and local students. It took years but she and her students integrated
Oklahoma ...
Norman Transcript
May 19, 2008
As part of its annual celebration, the college also recognized longtime
Oklahoma educator and civil rights leader
Clara Luper with the
career Achievement ...
Pioneer Online
May 5, 2008
Valles has become the most recent Pathways winner of a
Clara Luper Scholarship with
Oklahoma City University. The scholarship will provide a full ride to ...
KTEN
April 23, 2008
Other honorees include
Oklahoma civil rights advocate
Clara Luper. In 1995, Harris became the first black person to walk in space during a mission aboard ...
Oklahoma City Friday
April 23, 2008
The
Clara Luper Scholarship, gifted through a fund at
Oklahoma City University, is for freshmen entrants who have shown commitment to
education despite ...
Norman Transcript
April 23, 2008
Longtime
Oklahoma educator Clara Luper, known as the "Mother of the Oklahoma Civil Rights Movement." An advocate of
education and civil rights, two callings ...
Alva Review Courier
March 24, 2008
He had a profound influence on millions of
Americans, among them a courageous Oklahoman named
Clara Luper who played a vital role in launching a national ...
The Black Chronicle
March 19, 2008
Civil Rights Pioneer, Clara Luper during the Open-Mic Talk Show with some of the contestants from the pageant looking on. Contestants practice dance steps ...
KUSH Radio
March 1, 2008
This year's pageant was dedicated to
Oklahoma Civil Rights pioneer
Clara Luper, and as winner of the peageant, Jackson wins a scholarship named for Luper, ...
The Langston University Gazette
February 26, 2008
Pageant coordinator, Deshnick Lewis, and Dr. JoAnn Haysbert, president of Langston University, paid tribute to Clara Luper, founder of the Miss Black ...
KTEN
February 25, 2008
Students at
Oklahoma's only historically black university honored
Clara Luper last night during the Miss Black Langston Scholarship Pageant on the school's ...
KTEN
January 27, 2008
(AP) -
Oklahoma's historically black university will honor state civil rights leader
Clara Luper as part of festivities next month celebrating Black History ...
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
December 15, 2007
...
Clara Luper, mother of the civil rights movement; Wanda Jackson, queen of rockabilly; Wilma Mankiller, chief of the
Cherokee Nation; Billie Letts, ...
Tulsa World
November 19, 2007
Oklahoma City Friday
November 14, 2007
... to honor three lovely ladies who are 2007
Oklahoma hall of fame inductees: jane jayroe gamble,
Clara Luper and linda twine. terri cooper commented on ...
KTEN
November 9, 2007
Tulsa World
November 9, 2007
Clara Luper: Referred to as the mother of the
Oklahoma civil rights movement, Luper organized what is believed to be the nation's first civil rights sit-in ...
Tulsa World
November 4, 2007
Known as the mother of the
Oklahoma civil rights movement,
Clara Luper organized what is believed to be the nation's first sit-in at
Oklahoma City's Katz ...
