Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara ...

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 ...

Remembering Bernard Lafayette and his nonviolent yet relentless march for social justice and freedom throughout history.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sixty-seven years after a Black teacher and her group of Black students dared to challenge Jim Crow by sitting down at a Whites-Only lunch counter, Oklahoma City is finally honoring ...

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 ...

We would sit at the lunch counters and say, ‘We’d like to order a burger, french fries and a Coke,’ and [the staff] said, ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ We did not get up. We did not leave. Rev ...

Nine people were charged by state Capitol Police Monday when a group of climate defenders called Don’t Destroy Our Future and youth activists from Sunrise Movement held a sit-in protest inside of Gov.

A new plaza and sculpture honoring the Oklahoma City sit-ins was dedicated Saturday morning during a ceremony attended by elected officials, the project’s artists and fundraisers, and 10 of the 13 ...