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Calvin Luper Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Luper, Calvin, American, born 1946
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Luper, Clara, American, 1923 - 2011
- NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936
- Dr. Atkins, Charles N., 1911 - 1988
- Porter, Edwin Melvin, American, 1930 - 2016
- Sipuel Fisher, Ada Lois, American, 1924 - 1995
- Date
- May 24, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 00:24:04
- Description
- The oral history consists of four digital files: 2011.174.13.1a, 2011.174.13.1b, 2011.174.13.1c, and 2011.174.13.1d.
- 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.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0013
- Place collected
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Mass media
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Credit Line
- Duration: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.13.1a-d
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress