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Bookmark or Share- Clara Luper - WikipediaClara Shepard Luper (born Clara Mae Shepard May 3, 1923 – June 8, 2011) [1] was a civic leader, schoolteacher, and pioneering leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. [2]
- Clara Luper (1923-2011) - BlackpastClara Mae Luper was born in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, to Ezell and Isabell Shepard on May 3, 1923. She attended all-Black schools and was bussed several miles to Grayson High School, where she graduated in a class of five. After graduating from the segregated Langston University.
- Luper, Clara Shepard | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History ...luper, clara shepard (1923–2011). Educator and Civil Rights leader Clara Shepard Luper was born on May 3, 1923, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. The daughter of Ezell and Isabell Shepard, she married Charles P. Wilson and had three children, Calvin, Marilyn Luper Hildreth, and Chelle Marie.
- Clara's Story - Clara Luper LegacyClara Luper wrote a play in 1957 titled Brother President, the story of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the non-violent techniques that he used to eliminate segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. The play was seen by Herbert Wright, the National Youth Director of the NAACP.
- 65 years after OKC's sit-in, Clara Luper's 'radical love ...Sixty-five years ago, an Oklahoma City teacher walked with 13 of her students and own children into a downtown drug store, asking for the right to eat in any restaurant they wanted, regardless of the color of their skin. Led by Clara Luper, the students ranging from ages 6 to 17 sat at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter on Aug. 19, 1958.
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