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Katz Drug Store sit-in
August 19, 1958
Main Street, Oklahoma City
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Clara Luper took thirteen children of the NAACP Youth Council to a whites-only lunch counter and told them to keep ordering Coca-Cola. The chain desegregated its counters in three states within days, eighteen months before Greensboro, and far less remembered.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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