PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING. LET’S BRING IN OUR JOSHUA DAVIS. HE IS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER AND MUSEUM FROM THE VERY SAME COUNTER THAT MCNEIL, KAZAN AND MCCAIN, AS WELL AS DAVID RICHMOND ...
It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara Luper was 35 and a mother of three. Active in the Civil Rights Movement ...
They were four friends, all freshmen at a historically Black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And when they sat down at a segregated lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, they had no idea whether ...
Sixty-seven years after a group of kids started a sit-in protest for equal rights in Oklahoma City, their impact on the civil rights movement is being recognized. In 1958, teacher Clara Luper and 13 ...
A monument dedicated to a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement is now complete in downtown OKC. The life-sized bronze sculpture captures a scene from the Katz Drug Store Sit-In that happened in ...
HISTORY. MORGAN’S RICH LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHAPED BY BOLD ACTION AND PURPOSE, ESPECIALLY BY ITS STUDENTS, INCLUDING THIS GROUP WHO RISKED THEIR OWN SAFETY FOR DESEGREGATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, ...
One of the members of the Greensboro A&T Four sit-in movement, which sparked the Civil Rights movement, has died. Retired Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, 83, has passed away. He was a pioneering figure in ...