- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Calvin Luper oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2011-05-24
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mosnier, Joseph
Luper, Calvin, 1942- - Date of Original:
- 2011-05-24
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Youth Council
Civil rights movements--Oklahoma
Discrimination in public accommodations--Oklahoma
African American civil rights workers--Oklahoma--Interviews - People:
- Luper, Clara
Hildreth, Marilyn Luper, 1947- - Location:
- United States, Oklahoma, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma City, 35.46756, -97.51643
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml
application/pdf
application/x-video
image/jpeg - Description:
- Calvin Luper remembers his mother, Clara Luper, and her leadership in Oklahoma City's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Youth Council. He recalls participating in sit-ins in drug stores and restaurants, and hosting a radio show with his mother. He also remembers other leaders in Oklahoma's civil rights movement, including Dr. Charles N. Atkins, E. Melvin Porter, and Ada Lois Sipuel.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0013/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 video files of 4 (HD, Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (24 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (14 pages)
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project, (U.S.) (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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