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  2. Katz Drug Store sit-in - Wikipedia

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    The Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first sit-ins during the civil rights movement, occurring between August 19 and August 21, 1958, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.In protest of racial discrimination, black schoolchildren sat at a lunch counter with their teacher demanding food, refusing to leave until they were served.

  3. Katz Drug Store - Wikipedia

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    In 1948, Edna Griffith and her family were denied service at a Katz Drugstore in Des Moines, Iowa, which led to sit-ins and protests. In 1949 the Iowa Supreme Court determined Katz was in violation of the state's civil rights law. The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in was one of the first protests of its kind during the civil rights movement ...

  4. File:Interior of Katz drug store. Kansas City, Mo - NARA ...

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    Record group: Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2004 (National Archives Identifier: 350)Series: Civil Case Files, compiled 1939 - 1967 (National Archives Identifier: 584939)

  5. Here are 10 notable Oklahoma women you should know about ...

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    A year later, Luper and 13 of her students staged their first sit-in protest against segregation at Katz Drug Store on Aug. 19, 1958, where they asked for cokes. They returned to Katz day after ...

  6. Today marks 64 years since Katz drug store sit-in changed ...

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  7. 'My mother would be joyous,' says Clara Luper's daughter at ...

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    The design for a $3.6 million, bronze monument commemorating the Katz Drug Store sit-in, in the heart of downtown, was announced Wednesday. 'My mother would be joyous,' says Clara Luper's daughter ...

  8. Clara Luper - Wikipedia

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    Two days later, Katz corporate management in Kansas City desegregated its lunch counters in three states. [14] [15] The 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in had been suggested by Luper's eight-year-old daughter and occurred a year and a half before the February 1, 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins. It was the first sit-in of the civil rights ...

  9. Katz Drugs, Penney’s and Adler’s: Ads from 1959 ... - AOL

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    Brylcreem’s on sale, the fear of fickle deodorant, and ten job offers for every graduate. See what was being sold in these ads from a 1959 edition of The Star.