Luper as a Participant in the National Civil Rights Movement

Although Luper's impact is most well known in Oklahoma, she was part of the larger Civil Rights Movement sweeping through the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. She often attended important Civil Rights protests outside of Oklahoma, including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March in Alabama. She attended with Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., among others.  

Photo by James H. Wallace, of the March on Washington - Marchers Gathering at the Lincoln Memorial, August 23, 1963. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James H. Wallace, Jr., © Jim Wallace

Photo by James H. Karales, of Marchers Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Monica Karales and the Estate of James Karales, © Estate of James Karales, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.

Photo by James H. Karales, of Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, at the Selma to Montgomery March, March 21, 1965. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Monica Karales and the Estate of James Karales, © Estate of James Karales, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.