Someday is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-Ins by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, illustrated by Jade Johnson. PICTURE BOOK/NON-FICTION. Sea Grass (Quarto), 2018. $18. 9781633224988
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In 1958 Clara Luper, as an adult leader of an NAACP youth group, sat with her students, ages 6-17, as they held a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in a Oklahoma City drugstore – possibly the first in the country.
Clara’s history leading up to the sit-in and her life after is a great read. Rhuday-Perkovich does a good job of distilling the lessons of Luper’s life and showing the quiet power of non-violent demonstration. We need more and more books reminding people of all ages and races to not “sit there on your constitutional rights”.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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