Published: August 17, 2023 | Last Updated on December 31, 2023, 12:15 AM
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FREEDOM FIESTA CELEBRATES THE
65TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY SIT-INS
The Freedom Fiesta sponsored by the Clara Luper Legacy Committee celebrates the 65th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Sit-Ins. This year’s theme, Unity in the Community signifies the legacy and life work of Clara Luper, the local schoolteacher, who started one of the first non-violent protests in the country, along with thirteen children, at Katz Drug Store, in Oklahoma City on August 19, 1958.
This year’s celebration includes the following events:
Thursday, August 17, 6 p.m., a gospel musical concert, entitled “We’ve Come This Far by Faith” featuring the Dunjee Choir, the Ambassador Children’s Choir and other musical groups will be held at the Oklahoma History Center, 800 Nahid Zuhdi Drive.
Friday, August 18, 6 p.m., an art experience inspired by Clara Luper and the 1958 Sit-In movement, along with a panel discussion on the “Freedom Story” by Sit-In participants, will be held at the Contemporary Arts Museum, 11 N.W. 11 Street.
Saturday, August 19, 9 a.m., a reenactment of the Oklahoma City Sit-In March will begin at Frontline Church, 1104 N. Robinson and end at Kaiser’s Grateful Bean Café, 1039 N. Walker. The Clara Luper Legacy Committee invites the public and sends a special call out to anyone who had a family member participate in the Oklahoma City Civil Rights Movement to join us in the reenactment and celebration of the 65th Anniversary.
Sunday, August 20, 6 p.m., The Freedom Fiesta Celebration Program will be held at Fifth Street Baptist Church, 801 N.E. 5th Street, featuring keynote speaker, Pastor A. Byron Coleman, Senior Pastor of Fifth Street Baptist Church
The public is invited to join us in celebration of the 65th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Sit-In.
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