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Clara Luper Headshot

Description: Headshot of Clara Luper (1923 - 2011), a civil rights pioneer, an American educator, and a 1972 Oklahoma candidate for U.S. Senate. She earned degrees from Langston University and the University of Oklahoma, becoming the first African American in its graduate history program. Luper led one of the nation's earliest sit-in protests in 1958 and continued nonviolent activism through the 1960s, including national marches. She received numerous honors, including induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fa… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0559]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clara Luper and I. G. Purser look over newspaper clippings from the era when they were on opposite side of the law."
Date: November 21, 1989
Creator: Southerland, Paul B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0546]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. Clara Luper, Youth Council adviser for the Oklahoma City chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, give instructions to a group of persons before they went out today to test the compliance by restaurants of the new federal civil rights law and also a new Oklahoma City public accommodations ordinance."
Date: July 4, 1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0558]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clara Luper, center, a long-time civil rights activist and Oklahoma City teacher, gets ready to watch a parade in her honor Saturday."
Date: August 17, 1985
Creator: Hoke, Doug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0548]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clara Luper, center, the adult sponsor who led 13 students into Katz Drug Store in a civil rights protest 25 years ago, looks over on of the many newspaper clippings recounting the event with former students Barbara Posey Jones, left, and Alma Posey Washington."
Date: August 11, 1983
Creator: Klock, Roger
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0550]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clara Luper stands proudly by the newly erected monument that honors local and national people who battled for civil rights."
Date: November 18, 1992
Creator: Argo, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Clara Luper Boarding a Bus

Description: Photograph left to right, A. Willie James, Clara Luper, and Carl Madden (bus driver wearing the hat) boarding a chartered bus at Douglas High School, Oklahoma City for the National NAACP Convention in Washington, DC. Photo by Johnny Melton, Aug. 26, 1963.
Date: August 26, 1963
Creator: Melton, Johnny
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0310.0174]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Leaders of striking Oklahoma City sanitation workers as Saturday's demonstration at Civic Center Music Hall included, left to right, Richard Dockery, Dallas, NAACP regional director." OHS note: The woman in the middle of the photograph is Clara Luper.
Date: August 23, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0366B.0556]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The pageant was written and directed by Mrs. Clara Luper, standing right, youth advisor for the OKC branch of National Association for Advancement of Colored People." OHS note: The man standing (left) is John B. White, State NAACP Youth Advisor. Maxine Dowdell is the woman seated and William Miles, first NAACP Youth Council President, is the man seated.
Date: May 30, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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