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Chris Casteel The U.S. Senate has sent the White House a bill to rename the downtown Oklahoma City post office after civil rights pioneer Clara Luper.The legislation, which was authored by Rep. Kendra Horn and cleared the House in September, gained Senate approval on Thursday without objection.Horn, D-Oklahoma City, said, “Clara Luper and the sit-inners are true civil rights heroes. … This bill honors their legacy, giving Clara Luper’s name a permanent place in downtown Oklahoma City just blocks from where she led the first sit-in and from the epicenter of the sanitation workers’ strike.“Today, the story of Clara Luper and the NAACP Youth Council are inspiring a new generation of Oklahomans to take action. I hope the Clara Luper Post Office can stand as a testament to her enduring legacy, her courage and her historic fight for justice.”The bill directs that the post office at 305 NW 5 Street be named the Clara Luper Post Office Building. The facility is currently known as the Center City Post Office.Luper, a schoolteacher for more than 40 years, organized a sit-in at the Katz Drug Store in 1958 to protest its refusal to serve Black people. Many of the participants were members of the NAACP Youth Council. Luper and the youth council, through sit-ins and boycotts, worked to desegregate many other establishments in Oklahoma City.The Katz sit-in helped inspire similar protests, including one at a Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which lent momentum to the movement. Luper attended the March on Washington in 1963 and participated in some of the nation’s most historic civil rights demonstrations.Luper died in 2011, at age 88.Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, who shepherded the bill through the Senate, said Friday, “Naming a post office in Oklahoma City — in the heart of Ms. Luper’s professional, social, and political life — is a meaningful way to honor Clara Luper’s tireless work toward helping our nation form a more perfect union. In the years ahead, when kids see Clara Luper‘s name on the building, parents can tell the next generation of Oklahomans about her legacy and work for equality in Oklahoma City and around the country.”Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe said, “Clara Luper had a profound impact on the civil rights movement not just in Oklahoma — but across the country. I am proud that Oklahoma can honor her and her accomplishments permanently in this way, and applaud Sen. Lankford for his years of work to acknowledge, celebrate and affirm the legacy of Oklahomans like Clara Luper.”

Chris Casteel The U.S. Senate has sent the White House a bill to rename the downtown Oklahoma City post office after civil rights pioneer Clara Luper.The legislation, which was authored by Rep. Kendra Horn and cleared the House in September, gained Senate approval on Thursday without objection.Horn, D-Oklahoma City, said, “Clara Luper and the sit-inners are true civil rights heroes. … This bill honors their legacy, giving Clara Luper’s name a permanent place in downtown Oklahoma City just blocks from where she led the first sit-in and from the epicenter of the sanitation workers’...

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