#claraluper

[kimjameson]

A record-setting Friday in Memphis. And we still get to see a very special couple get married!! #memphis #nationalcivilrightsmuseum #sunstudio #claraluper #martinlutherkingjr (at Memphis, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Xm3_ihOsjA3omsw4vYBGuPtz_Kt5Zrl-UFqg0/?igshid=ys13iv68upcz

[defalternative]

#OKC #HONORS #CivilRights #60yrsAgo #ClaraLuper led children that were “untouchable” to sit in at a diner before sit ins were a trend. This weekend downtown OKC shows respect to the architect Clara Luper with her face gracing the walls after re-enacting the first sit in to celebrate the spirit of resistance. #RedState #BlackWalls #WhiteSupremacy

[defalternative]

#DEAR #DefHot #DefAlternative #MothersOfMovements "This is how it should be done...her style is identical to none." (Thanks @rakimgodmc ) #TheFirstLady of several churches in the Historic C.M.E. Church, "Dear" A.K.A. "Mrs. Naomi Walker" is the strongest woman I know at the age of 89 years old. She was the first to invest in Definition of Alternative and said "I'm betting on you." For her we strive to win and seek to explore opportunities to lift from the bottom in honor of her years as a wife to the Minister who, as Secretary of the (1960s) #OKC @NAACP made the motion to start the sit-ins that the Legendary #ClaraLuper led during the #CivilRightsMovement that strategically put children on the front line. (at Mercy Clinic Primary Care - Edmond I-35)

[exploringoklahomahistory]

Remembering the Oklahoma City Sit-Ins

... On August 19, 1958—54 years ago today and a year and a half before the famous Greensboro Sit-In—schoolteacher and NAACP official Clara Luper led thirteen African American students into a Katz drug store in Oklahoma City to nonviolently agitate against racial discrimination and segregation. ...

Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement

Read More:

https://lcrm.lib.unc.edu/blog/index.php/2012/08/19/remembering-the-oklahoma-city-sit-ins/

#oklahoma #oklahomahistory #okhistory #okc #claraluper #civilrights