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| https://horn.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=347 | Clara Luper Post Office Resolution to Receive Vote | 2020-09-13 | 2020 | 2020-09 | Democrat | House | OK | Kendra Horn | H001083 | horn.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON D.C. - On Monday, Congresswoman Kendra Horn's (OK-5) bill (H.R. 5597) to rename the downtown Oklahoma City Post Office in honor of civil rights icon Clara Luper, will receive a vote on the House floor. All members of the Oklahoma congressional delegation are co-sponsors of the bill. On August 19, 1958, Luper and the NAACP Youth Council led a civil rights sit in at Oklahoma City's Katz Drug Store,the first civil rights lunch counter sit-in in America. The sit in was the first in a series of successful nonviolent protests to desegregate downtown establishments. The sit ins led by Clara Luper and the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City helped inspire lunch counters protests across the South, occurring years before the Woolworth's lunch counter sit in in Greensboro, NC. In 1969, Luper was also the spokespersonforstriking sanitation workers in Oklahoma City. I am proud that we are one step closer to recognizing Clara Luper and the sit-inners, true civil rights heroes who fought tirelesslyfora better Oklahoma, said Congresswoman Horn. Luper led sit ins, mobilized Oklahomans young and old, and faced down racism and intolerance all to foster equity and end segregation. We must remember her legacy and that of the NAACP Youth Council and the countless others who stood with her. More than fifty years after the Oklahoma City civil rights sit ins, we still have work to do to end racism and discrimination. The story of Clara Luper and the NAACP Youth Council are inspiring a new generation of Oklahomans to take action. I hope the Clara Luper Post Office can stand as a testament to her enduring legacy, her courage, and her historic fightforjustice. Thirteen children participated in the first protest at Katz Drug Store with Luper's guidance. Recently, OklahomaCity celebrated the 60thanniversaryof the 1958 sit ins which integrated the city. The Downtown Oklahoma City Post Office is near the location of the 1958 sit in at Katz Drug Store. The post office is also near the epicenter of the sanitation workers strike that Luper led in 1969. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |