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How was Oklahoma significant in the
Civil Rights Movement?

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Katz Drug in downtown Oklahoma City was the setting of what's referred to as the tipping point in the nation's civil rights movement. That's where, in the fall of 1958, Clara Luper and 13 black children participated in a sit-in, silently and non-violently protesting segregation at the store's lunch counter.

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