Vandals have struck the new Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza less than a month after it was dedicated in downtown Oklahoma City.

Someone used what appeared to be a key or a small pocket knife to scratch nearly every bronze sculpture depicting an individual, including the image of civil rights icon Clara Luper. The plaza featuring a 4-ton bronze lunch counter with life-sized depictions of Luper, 13 NAACP Youth Council members, and a Katz Drug Store employee was dedicated at Robinson Avenue and Main Street on Nov. 1.

"It looked like a kid did it," said John Kennedy, the project's developer and co-chairman of the committee that oversaw the plaza's design and construction.

A large crowd converged on the plaza on Nov. 1 for the dedication of the civil rights site, which is where Katz Drug

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