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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...