AP File Photo-FILE In this Aug. 9, 1983 photo, Oklahoma Civil Rights Leader Clara Luper poses with one of the many photographs from her scrap books at a North East Oklahoma city Community center in Oklahoma City, Okla. Luper, who led sit-ins at drug store lunch counters in Oklahoma, has died at age 88. Luper’s […]
AP File Photo-FILE In this Aug. 9, 1983 photo, Oklahoma Civil Rights Leader Clara Luper poses with one of the many photographs from her scrap books at a North East Oklahoma city Community center in Oklahoma City, Okla. Luper, who led sit-ins at drug store lunch counters in Oklahoma, has died at age 88. Luper’s daughter, Marilyn Hildreth, said Thursday, June 9, 2011 that her mother died Wednesday night after a lengthy illness. Luper, who retired from her role as a school teacher in 1991, said in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press that she had dedicated her life to spreading the message of racial and gender equality.