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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The kickoff event for Jacksonville joining the U.S. Civil Rights Trail featured a marker standing a few feet from the pulpit where ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of the original living participants of the first historic Katz Drug Store sit-in, only two have been unable to visit the Clara ...

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 ...

Celebrating the women who have shaped what justice looks like in education, civil rights, disability visibility and climate. History rarely announces the women who build it. Moreso, movements in ...

The kickoff event for Jacksonville joining the U.S. Civil Rights Trail featured a marker standing a few feet from the pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a sermon titled “This Is a Great ...