The 28th annual Midwest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast took place Saturday at the Reed Conference Center at the Delta Hotel.

The Freedom Center of Oklahoma City, LLC is pleased to announce it has  received a $10,000 grant from Oklahoma Humanities. The grant will be used to create an exhibition  entitled Inside These Walls: The Freedom Center Story, a creative, visual display of the rich civil rights  legacies contained within this historic landmark.

The highlight of the Clara Luper Sit-In Plaza at Robinson and Main will be a $3.6 million bronze monument commemorating the Aug. 19, 1958, sit-in at the Katz lunch counter, led by Hildreth's mother, civil rights activist Clara Luper. The plaza site at 59 N Robinson is where the Katz drug store once stood. The monument will feature sculptures of Luper, the lunch counter, the 13 children participating in the sit-in and the waitress who refused to serve them.

Freedom Center of OKC Vice Chairman Joyce Henderson will be inducted into the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame. (Photo by Powell Photography)

Oklahoma sculptor LaQuincey Reed stands with his clay model of civil rights leader Clara Luper that will become part of a bronze monument in downtown Oklahoma City. The monument will depict the first Katz Drug Store sit-in by 13 children led by Luper who were refused service because they were Black. (Photo by Kathryn McNutt, The Journal Record)

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Clara Luper stands proudly by the newly erected monument that honors local and national people who battled for civil rights."

Photographer: Jim Argo

Source: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society