Calvin Luper Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History
Calvin Luper Oral History Interview: Date: May 24, 2011. Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009. Interview of: Calvin Luper, American, born 1946.
The object in the museum catalogue
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.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: May 24, 2011
- Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of: Calvin Luper, American, born 1946
- Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
- Subject of: Clara Luper, American, 1923 - 2011
- Subject of: NAACP Youth Council, American, founded 1936
- Subject of: Dr. Charles N. Atkins, 1911 - 1988
- Subject of: Edwin Melvin Porter, American, 1930 - 2016
- Subject of: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, American, 1924 - 1995
- Type: video recordings
- Type: oral histories
- Type: digital media - born digital
- Medium: digital
- Dimensions: Duration: 24 min., 4 sec.
- Dimensions: Total: 39.32 GB
- Place collected: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Activism
- Topic: American South
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Social reform
- Object number: 2011.174.13.1a-d
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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