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The highlight of the plaza will be a $3.6 million bronze monument commemorating the Aug. 19, 1958, sit-in at the Katz lunch ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit ...
One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.
The F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter is part of the collection at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., on display, Sept. 16, 2016.
Joseph A. McNeil, of Hempstead, took a seat at a "whites-only" Greensboro lunch counter 63 years ago and decided it was time to take a stand. McNeil, 80, is one of the two surviving civil rights ...
Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.
Black History How a youth-led lunch counter sit-in became a turning point for civil rights in Tampa Youth activists held the first lunch counter sit-in 63 years ago and forever changed Tampa.
In this Jan. 7, 2010 photo, the lunch counter at the former F.W. Woolworth is shown at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C. Four college freshmen walked into a ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. Lunch Counter Sculpture (KFOR) A monument is being made in her honor to ...