On this day in Black history, the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma began sit-ins at the Katz Drug Store, in an attempt to desegregate Oklahoma City school’s lunch counters in 1958.
The sit-ins were some of the first to gain national attention, and brave efforts from those teenagers resulted in the city council passing an ordinance ending racial discrimination, even before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
“If leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and A. Philip Randolph were the heartbeat of the civil rights struggle, then Black America’s youth was its lifeblood,” said Laverne McGee.
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