The Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza was unveiled late last year. But due to health reasons, this was Calvin Luper's first time seeing it in person.

We like to pretend that segregation was so long ago, out of sight, out of mind and it’s not, it’s systemic,” says Christopher ...

Calvin Luper, a youth who took part in the Katz Drugstore sit-in, visited the Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza for first ...

It’s totally Tuesday Oklahoma! Some of the topics on today’s show include the nation’s first civil rights sit-in site is now memorialized forever in downtown Oklahoma City! Rabies cases are on the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara Luper. Last month, a new statue honoring Clara Luper was ...

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...

Four young black men -- the Greensboro Four -- held a peaceful sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, and the world noticed ...

IN JANUARY 1955. MORGAN STUDENTS, ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY, WERE WAITING AT LEXINGTON AND HOWARD FOR A BUS. IT WAS BITTERLY COLD OUT. THEY ENTERED READS SEEKING WARMTH.

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

Wilmington native and Civil Rights icon Major General Joseph McNeil has died at 83. He was one of four Black freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University who staged a ...

Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...