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Published: February 22, 2008
Oklahoma City's Clara Luper helped give birth to a movement
National effort gained steam after first desegregation sit-in
National effort gained steam after first desegregation sit-in
Many know Clara Luper , 85, as the mother of the civil rights movement in Oklahoma . To her children, she's just Mother.
In August, it will be 50 years since Luper, her friend Portwood Williams Sr. and more than a dozen youths changed Oklahoma and the nation with the first lunch counter protest at Katz Drug. Luper was a young teacher who also worked as the adviser of the NAACP Youth Council .
"It was my daugh...
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