Oklahoma civil rights activist Clara Luper dies

Oklahoma civilian rights activist and drillmaster Clara Luper -- was best accepted for acclimation a 1958 demonstration at a absolute Katz Drug Store in burghal Oklahoma Burghal -- died Wednesday night at her home in Oklahoma City. She was 88.Luper, who was acclaimed as a avant-garde of civilian rights in Oklahoma, organzied a beef that lasted several canicule and ultimately resulted in the affiliation of 38 Katz Drug Stores in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa.Oklahoma Burghal Mayor Mick Cornett requested that all flags on burghal acreage to be aureate at bisected agents in account of Luper and her addition to the city.In a account issued from his office, Cornett declared Luper as a "great Oklahoman and a abundant American.While her accomplishments are too abounding to list, her bequest is calmly defined," Cornett said in the statement.She fabricated Oklahoma and the United States of America a more good abode to alive and was a animated archetype of the audibly American abstraction that while we ability barrage from abounding cultures, we are one people.Throughout the 1960s, Luper formed with the bounded affiliate of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to date sit-ins and non-violent protests which ultimately led to the desegregation of restaurants in Oklahoma City.