During Black History Month, KOCO is honoring those who made a difference in Oklahoma, and there is perhaps no bigger name in the state's history than "Luper." On Tuesday, there was a deeply personal ...

STATESVILLE, N.C. — A civil rights marker honoring the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in was unveiled Thursday in Statesville. The Statesville Historical Collection has a replica of the counter ...

A man restores a statue honoring a lunch counter sit-in in 1958 Oklahoma during the Civil Rights Movement at the Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza in downtown Oklahoma City on Dec. 8, 2025. (Photo by ...

Two dozen Burke High School students sat down at a lunch counter inside the Kress building on King Street, determined to ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR)— On Saturday, thousands gathered downtown in Oklahoma City for the dedication of the Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza. Schoolteacher Clara Luper, an Oklahoma City youth and ...

Franklin McCain, one of the “Greensboro Four” who sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina, sparking the sit-in movement in the 1960s, has died, NPR reports. Suggested Reading 13 ...

Oklahoma City added a new landmark of courage and hope Saturday morning with the dedication of the Clara Luper National Sit-In Memorial Plaza, located less than a mile south of the Oklahoma City ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died Feb. 17 after a lengthy battle with a condition similar to Parkinson's Disease. Jesse Jackson's 1960 sit-in at a Greenville, South Carolina, library had a direct influence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of the original living participants of the first historic Katz Drug Store sit-in, only two have been unable to visit the Clara ...