The Right to be Served: Oklahoma City's Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, 1958-1964
Description:
Article describes the history of the campaign for equal treatment of African-Americans in Oklahoma City, beginning with the lunch counter sit-ins organized by the NAACP's Youth Council. Carl R. Graves catalogs the efforts of the NAACP and other organizations to end opposition to the desegregation laws passed years earlier.
Date:
Summer 1981
Creator:
Graves, Carl R.
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Oklahoma Historical Society