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For as long as she lives, Marilyn Luper Hildreth<\/a> plans to continue telling her mother’s story through re-enactments, marches and even music.<\/p>\n “My mother used to say, ‘One day, somebody’s gonna write about us, somebody’s gonna talk about it, I guess, even if it’s we ourselves,’ because it was hard to tell our story,” said Hildreth, the older daughter of the late Oklahoma City civil rights icon Clara Luper<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Nobody was interested in what we were going through as a race of people, that we were still having to eat out of a brown paper sack out behind the building, during that time of history.”<\/p>\n On Aug, 19, 1958, Luper and 13 of her students<\/a> \u2014 including her two older children, Calvin and Marilyn \u2014 walked into the then-segregated Katz Drug Store in downtown OKC<\/a> and ordered Cokes at the lunch counter, initiating one of the first civil rights protests of its kind in the country. It took place two years before the famous sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. <\/p>\n