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1958: Clara Luper led sit-in at an all-white lunch counter

On this day in 1958, high school history teacher Clara Luper led the first sit-in in Oklahoma to challenge all-white lunch counters. ....

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"On August 19, 1958, I Was Seven." An Oklahoma City Woman Remembers Being a Child Activist – StoryCorps

"On August 19, 1958, I Was Seven." An Oklahoma City Woman Remembers Being a Child Activist – StoryCorps
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Tornado sirens celebrate 75 years of alerting people to wicked weather

Tornado sirens blared for 17 minutes on May 22, 2011, before an EF5 twister ripped through the heart of Joplin leaving death and destruction in its path in the deadliest tornado to hit the four-state area where Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas meet. America’s first-ever tornado forecast was issued on March 25, 1948, just five […] ....

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How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US

It spread Anglo-European culture across the nation and caused trade to flourish, but the story of the Chinese labourers who built the track has largely been forgotten. ....

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Kanaye Nagasawa: The samurai who forever changed California

Smuggled out of Japan, he became the US' first permanent Japanese resident and helped birth California's wine industry. ....

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