Former students remember lessons from Clara Luper

 
BY SONYA COLBERG scolberg@opubco.com
Published: June 18, 2011

Former students of Clara Luper recall that learning at the civil rights leader's knee was never a spectator sport.

She urged, no, she demanded that young people participate in education, recalled former students and family members at Luper's graveside.

“You can't come in and sit there on your constitutional right,” she'd tell Dunjee High School youngsters, said former student Julie Hunter-Allen .

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