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By Chris CasteelStaff writer ccasteel@oklahoman.comAt a town hall meeting Saturday in a predominantly black Oklahoma City neighborhood, there were reminders of the very public civil rights victories of the past and of the more private everyday struggles still occurring. “We went downtown and we sat and we sat and we sat, until the walls of segregation started coming down,” Marilyn Luper Hildreth recalled to a packed auditorium at Fairview Baptist Church on NE 7 Street. Hildreth’s mother, school teacher Clara Luper, organized the 1958 sit-in of the Katz Drug Store after months of trying to negotiate with the owners about a rule prohibiting blacks from sitting at the lunch counter.Read more on NewsOK.com

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