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Podcast: Voices of Oklahoma
Episode: Clara & Marilyn Luper - Oklahoma Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
Description: In 1958, Clara Luper and her students from the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council were invited to New York City to perform the play she wrote, Brother President, about Martin Luther King Jr.It was that trip that became the catalyst for the beginning of the sit-in movement in Oklahoma City and the country.One of Clara’s students was her daughter Marilyn Luper Hildreth. It was seven-year-old Marilyn who in a meeting suggested the group go down to the Katz Drug store to order a Coke and some burgers. The date was August 19, 1958, and it became th...