64 years ago today, 13 Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City, shaping the course of the civil rights movement. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.
Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983.Civil rights leader Clara Luper poses with a photograph from her scrapbooks at a community center in Oklahoma City, Okla., in August 1983.Sixty-four years ago Friday, 13 Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City, shaping the course of the civil rights movement.in Greensboro, N.C.But 17 months earlier, on Aug.
"When we sat down they asked us what do we want, and we told them we wanted to be served and they informed us that they didn't serve coloreds," Hildreth said."So, we just sat there until they decided to serve us."Under Luper's advice, the students remained seated and quiet, even as white customers yelled, cursed and spit at them.
"When people would spit on us our responsibility was to turn our heads and keep our cool," Hildreth said. After three consecutive days of action, Katz Drug Store served the 13 Black children and integrated its lunch counter.Hildreth didn't just participate in the sit-in — she initiated it. She got the idea from an eye-opening trip to New York City with her mother.
Luper was one year into her role as an NAACP Youth Council adviser when she took several students to New York City to perform a play she wrote,"In many ways I think my mother was a genius," Hildreth said."She planned for us to go the northern route and you have to understand that Oklahoma had some of the most segregated laws on their books."
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