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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 08:53 AM Aug 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on August 19, 1958

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Youth Council in Oklahoma City, led by Clara Luper, a high school history teacher, began sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters, inspired by success in Wichita, Kansas. 
[see August 11, 1958]. http://bit.ly/19rI8SD

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