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 ...

During Black History Month, KOCO is honoring those who made a difference in Oklahoma, and there is perhaps no bigger name in the state's history than "Luper." On Tuesday, there was a deeply personal ...

Franklin McCain, one of the “Greensboro Four” who sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in North Carolina, sparking the sit-in movement in the 1960s, has died, NPR reports. Suggested Reading 13 ...

HISTORY. MORGAN’S RICH LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHAPED BY BOLD ACTION AND PURPOSE, ESPECIALLY BY ITS STUDENTS, INCLUDING THIS GROUP WHO RISKED THEIR OWN SAFETY FOR DESEGREGATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, ...

A man restores a statue honoring a lunch counter sit-in in 1958 Oklahoma during the Civil Rights Movement at the Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza in downtown Oklahoma City on Dec. 8, 2025. (Photo by ...

STATESVILLE, N.C. — A civil rights marker honoring the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in was unveiled Thursday in Statesville. The Statesville Historical Collection has a replica of the counter ...

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 ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson died Feb. 17 after a lengthy battle with a condition similar to Parkinson's Disease. Jesse Jackson's 1960 sit-in at a Greenville, South Carolina, library had a direct influence ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

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 ...