Mourners celebrate the life of civil rights leader Clara Luper

 
BY CARLA HINTON chinton@opubco.com
Published: June 18, 2011

Clara Luper answered the “call for justice” when she led the sit-in movement in Oklahoma City and forever changed the city and nation, a leader with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said Friday.

“She did it not for fame or fortune or ego — but because it was the right thing to do,” Roslyn M. Brock , chairman of the national NAACP board of directors, said.

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