It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara Luper was 35 and a mother of three. Active in the Civil Rights Movement ...

The hope and tenacity of young people who made up the core of the Oklahoma City sit-ins are reflected in the theme of this year's commemoration of the local desegregation movement. Freedom Fiesta Week ...

We would sit at the lunch counters and say, ‘We’d like to order a burger, french fries and a Coke,’ and [the staff] said, ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ We did not get up. We did not leave. Rev ...

The Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza was unveiled late last year. But due to health reasons, this was Calvin Luper's first time seeing it in person.

During the Civil Rights Movement, the Minute Men Commandos played a crucial role in protecting sit-in participants, ready to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The nation’s first civil rights sit-in is now memorialized forever, where it actually happened in downtown Oklahoma City. You might know the history of OKC teacher Clara Luper ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

Students at Hendersonville Middle School took part in an event honoring Black History Month by sharing experiences from the ...

A historic lunch counter from Read's Drugstore that's on display at the Morgan State University Student Center demonstrates what would help spark the Civil Rights Movement across Baltimore. Morgan ...