12019-03-12T23:56:47+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282415plainpublished2019-10-14T01:29:56+00:00AnonymousOn September 6, 1958, the Cleveland Call and Postreported that Clara Luper would be the featured speaker at the Cleveland NAACP membership campaign at E. Mt. Zion Baptist Church: “Mrs. Clara Luper, the woman who is leading hundreds of Negro children in a silent, Ghandi-type assault on Oklahoma’s invisible wall of segregation, will come to Cleveland next Friday to tell how her ‘silent campaign’ has opened the doors of 19 white churches and several soda fountains in the Sooner State.”
When the Call and Post reported on the Greensboro sit-ins in February 1960, the paper opened the story by referencing Luper’s work in Oklahoma City: “Taking their cue from similar protests by youth in Oklahoma City, a group of well-dressed Negro college students staged a sit down strike in the downtown Woolworth store last week and vowed to continue it in relays until Negroes were served at the lunch counter.”
