Article describes the life and influence of Clara Luper, a teacher and adviser for the NAACP Youth Council who worked with students to obtain civil rights and the desegregation of Oklahoma City.
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Article describes the life and influence of Clara Luper, a teacher and adviser for the NAACP Youth Council who worked with students to obtain civil rights and the desegregation of Oklahoma City.
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Abstract: Clara Luper served on the front lines of the battle to integrate Oklahoma City's public accommodations. As a teacher and the adviser for the NAACP Youth Council, she taught countless children and teenagers how to demonstrate peacefully as they fought for their civil rights. Rachel E. Watson focuses on Luper's pedagogy, and how her classroom engagement raised a group of activists calling for freedom.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The Chronicles of Oklahoma is the scholarly journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It is a quarterly publication and was first published in 1921.