Clara Luper's legacy: How a movement became a monument

A monument dedicated to a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement is now complete in downtown OKC.

The life-sized bronze sculpture captures a scene from the Katz Drug Store Sit-In that happened in 1958. That's when teacher Clara Luper and 13 kids from the NAACP Youth Council protested for 3 days to desegregate the drug store.

That led to other similar protests and OKC businesses, and a few years later, the sit-in movement spread across the country.

We talked to the artists about how the monument went from vision to reality.

Below is a transcript of that interview. You can watch our Oklahoma's Own Originals video to see how the monument came together at the top of this article.

So first off, your thoughts on this project, what does it mean to you?

Well, this is an amazing historic