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68 years later, Oklahoma City Katz sit-in participants still changing the world

In 1958, Black children as young as 7 sat down at a segregated OKC lunch counter and sparked a nationwide movement. This ...

Calvary Baptist and sit-in plaza will be part of sit-in commemoration

Civil rights leader Clara Luper will be honored during 68th anniversary celebration of Katz Drug Store sit-in and Oklahoma City sit-in movement ...

See photos from the Katz Drug Store march, sit-in reenactment in OKC

The event honors the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in by students of the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council and their teacher and ...
NPR

How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement

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, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Moment When Four Students Sat Down to Take a Stand

One of the great monuments to the Greensboro Sit-In is at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Christopher Wilson | Chair, Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of ...