WebClara Mae Luper was one of the early leaders of the civil rights movement in Oklahoma in the 50s. She was arrested 26 times for her civil rights activities. She led sit-ins all over OK. She was a candidate for the US Senate in 1972, and developed Black Voices Magazine in the the late 70s. Web8 jun. 2011 · In 2000, a 2.7-mile section of NE 23, where she had led young people in walks and marches many times, was renamed the Clara Luper Corridor. In 2002, Edward L. Gaylord, then president of The Oklahoma …

Clara Luper, a Leader of Civil Rights Sit-Ins, Dies at 88 - New York Times

WebClara Shepard Luper (born Clara Mae Shepard May 3, 1923 – June 8, 2011) was a civic leader, retired schoolteacher, and a pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights … b9 天地無用

Honoring Clara Luper Who Helped Shape the Civil Rights Movement

Web7 feb. 2024 · But Clara Luper was a seminal figure in the sit-ins of the civil rights movement,” according to writer Dennis Hevesi of the New York Times. Other sit-ins received more press coverage, such as the Greensboro sit-ins Feb. 1, 1960, at Woolworth in North Carolina, but the sit-in Luper organized and led happened 17 months earlier. Web27 jun. 2011 · Clara Luper, 88, a civil rights leader who led the earliest sit-ins to integrate lunch counters in Oklahoma; she was arrested 26 times for her civil rights protests. … Web9 jun. 2011 · You had to have known Clara Luper back in the day to get it. Fifty years ago, she was the face of the civil rights movement in Oklahoma City. As a reporter for The Daily Oklahoman-Oklahoma City Times, I photographed that face for the first time with a Polaroid camera (the first, and likely the last, Polaroid photo to appear in the Times) during a … b9能力点