Description:
This first organized sit-in in Oklahoma--almost two years before the more famous sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina--sparked other demonstrations in Oklahoma and other states. Behold the Walls is Luper's engrossing firsthand account of how the movement she helped launch ended legal racial segregation.
Brief description: Clara Luper (1923-2011) was an Oklahoma schoolteacher, civic leader, and nationally prominent civil rights activist.
Review Quotes: "In the 1950s, Oklahoma icon Clara Luper, a fierce force for social justice, marked the state's place on the American civil rights trail. This book beautifully retraces her glorious, and ultimately victorious, campaign."--Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., author of Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with Its Historical Racial Trauma