Posted on Aug 20, 2022
How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement
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Sixty-four years ago Friday, 13 Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City, shaping the course of the civil rights movement.
Other sit-ins, like the Feb. 1, 1960, protest by four Black college at Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., were better known in the fight to end segregation.
But 17 months earlier, on Aug. 19, 1958, Clara Luper, an Oklahoma City history teacher and NAACP Youth Council adviser led the group of younger students to a Katz Drug Store. Ten-year-old Marilyn Luper Hildreth, her oldest daughter, was one of them. She spoke to NPR about the memories of that day.
"When we sat down they asked us what do we want, and we told them we wanted to be served and they informed us that they didn't serve coloreds," Hildreth said. "So, we just sat there until they decided to serve us."
Sixty-four years ago Friday, 13 Black students sat at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City, shaping the course of the civil rights movement.
Other sit-ins, like the Feb. 1, 1960, protest by four Black college at Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., were better known in the fight to end segregation.
But 17 months earlier, on Aug. 19, 1958, Clara Luper, an Oklahoma City history teacher and NAACP Youth Council adviser led the group of younger students to a Katz Drug Store. Ten-year-old Marilyn Luper Hildreth, her oldest daughter, was one of them. She spoke to NPR about the memories of that day.
"When we sat down they asked us what do we want, and we told them we wanted to be served and they informed us that they didn't serve coloreds," Hildreth said. "So, we just sat there until they decided to serve us."
How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
I'm always blown away with awe at the abject bravery and strength of character of these unarmed, peaceful Americans who faced down the violence from those ignorant fascists spewing hate, evil, physical threats at every turn in their civil, quiet, but defiant protests against the evil of hatred and subjugation.
American Heroes, all!
I'm always blown away with awe at the abject bravery and strength of character of these unarmed, peaceful Americans who faced down the violence from those ignorant fascists spewing hate, evil, physical threats at every turn in their civil, quiet, but defiant protests against the evil of hatred and subjugation.
American Heroes, all!
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