Clara luper biography
Clara luper biography
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Clara Luper
American civic leader
Clara Luper | |
|---|---|
| Born | Clara Mae Shepard May 3, 1923 Okfuskee County, Oklahoma |
| Died | June 8, 2011(2011-06-08) (aged 88) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Civic leader, school teacher, activist, 1972 Oklahoma candidate for U.S.
Senate |
| Children | 2 |
Clara Shepard Luper (born Clara Mae Shepard May 3, 1923 – June 8, 2011)[1] was a civic leader, schoolteacher, and pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement.[2] She is best known for her leadership role in the 1958 Oklahoma City sit-in movement, as she, her young son and daughter, and numerous young members of the NAACP Youth Council successfully conducted carefully planned nonviolent sit-in protests of downtown drugstore lunch-counters, which overturned their policies of segregation.
The success of this sit-in would result in Luper becoming a leader of various sit-ins throughout Oklahoma City between