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    Clara Luper: Civil Rights Pioneer
    Clara Luper: Civil Rights Pioneer
    Clara Luper: Civil Rights Pioneer
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    Clara Luper: Civil Rights Pioneer

    By Stan Paregien, Sr

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    Though a school teacher by profession and proud of it, Clara Luper courageously began early in her career a life-long battle against racism. She made local and national news in 1958 when she organized a small group of teenagers (including her own children) and led them in a sit-in an Oklahoma City drugstore diner which did not serve Black people. They were mocked and harassed and threatened, but they came back day after day until the store changed its policy. Other demonstrations and successes quickly followed.

    In 1963, Luper and her children joined a bus load of Oklahoma people who participated in the gigantic March on Washington. They and thousands of others stood near the Lincoln Memorial and listened to Dr. Martin Luther King deliver his stirring speech titled, "I Have a Dream."

    In 1965, Clara Luper also joined hundreds of other demonstrators for the historic and infamous march on Selma, Alabama to peacefully protest civil rights violations there. The demonstrators kept their part of the march peaceful, alright, but the police and racist bystanders attacked and beat many of the marchers and sic'd their police dogs on them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStan Paregien, Sr
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301688357
    Clara Luper: Civil Rights Pioneer
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    Stan Paregien, Sr

    Stan Paregien Sr was born in Wapanucka (Johnston County), Oklahoma to Harold and Evelyn (Cauthen) Paregien. The family moved west the year after his birth and he grew up on ranches and farms where his father worked in southern California.One of those places where Harold Paregien worked was the Newhall Ranch, a corporate ranching and farming operation that stretched for miles either side of the highway from the towns of Newhall (now Santa Clarita) to Piru. Stan was already in love with anything cowboy, mostly by watching those great B-Westerns at the local movie theaters. And then on the Newhall Ranch (officially known as the Newhall Land & Farming Company) he and his sister Roberta acquired horses and rode happy trails all over the ranch.Paregien graduated from high school in 1959 at Fillmore, Calif. He married Peggy Ruth Allen from nearby Ventura, Calif., in 1962. They immediately moved to Nashville, Tennessee for Stan to study Speech Communication (and history and Bible) at Lipscomb University. He graduated in 1965. In 1968, he received his master’s degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then he completed all 60-hours of the classwork toward a Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma (but did not complete his other requirements). He has taken and is still taking continuing education courses in Life Skills through the University of Hard Knocks.He is a former full-time minister, a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio talk show host, a director of mental health facilities in both Texas and Oklahoma, and a salesman of various products. His hobby since 1990 has been writing and performing cowboy poetry and stories. He performed at the annual National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas for a total of some 25 years. Through it all, he has been and is a freelance writer and author.He prefers just calling himself a "storyteller" in the tradition of Mark Twain, Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Garrison Keillor, Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, J. Frank Dobie, Agatha Christie and others. Sometimes he tells stories through narration, sometimes through poetry and often through photography.Stan and Peggy have two adult children, Stan Paregien Jr who lives with his family in the St. Louis area; and Stacy Magness who lives with her family near College Station, Texas. They also have four grandchildren (going on five, with an adoption in progress) and two great-grandchildren. The Paregiens lived in Edmond, Oklahoma for some 20 years before moving to Bradenton, Florida in June of 2013.Be sure to take a look at his other e-books which are also available online, including:S. Omar Barker: Las Vegas New Mexico's Legendary Cowboy PoetHis biography and 50 of his poems.The Cajun Cowdog: 15 Cowboy Stories for Adults**Just that people under age 13 probably can't appreciate it.Cowboy Earmuffs: 15 Cowboy Stories for AdultsA Rainy Day Reader: 100 Poems for Your EnjoymentWoody Guthrie: His Life, Music & MythOklahoma Almanac of Facts & Humor, (Parts 1& 2)The Austin Chronicles, Book 1: Boggy Depot Shootout (a Western novel with adult themes)The Austin Chronicles, Book 2: The Abilene Trail (a Western novel with adult themes)The Day Jesus DiedRootin’ Tootin’ Cowboy Poetry (Stan's original poems)Guy Logsdon: Award-winning FolkloristJim Shoulders: King of the Rodeo CowboysClara Luper: Civil Rights PioneerThoughts on UnityHe also recently published two paperback books through Amazon.com's KDP "Print-on-demand" process. Those two books are:S. Omar Barker: Las Vegas New Mexico's Legendary Cowboy PoetThe Day Jesus Died: Revised VersionOr just Google "books by Stan Paregien."

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      Clara Luper - Stan Paregien, Sr

      Clara Luper: Civil Rights Pioneer

      by Stan Paregien Sr

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN: 9781301688357

      Copyright 2012 by Stan Paregien Sr

      All Rights Reserved.

      Bradenton, FL: Paregien Enterprises, 2012

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Introducing Clara Luper

      Chapter 2

      Racism in Her Youth

      Chapter 3

      An Educator at Heart

      Chapter 4

      Racism in America

      Chapter 5

      Her Freedom Center

      Chapter 6

      Demonstrating for Civil Rights

      Chapter 7

      The March on Washington

      Chapter 8

      The March on Selma

      Chapter 9

      The Later Years

      Chapter 10

      Still Fighting the Battle

      Chapter 11

      Resources

      Chapter 12

      Stan Paregien's Bio & Other eBooks

      Chapter 1

      Introducing Clara Luper

      Most people would probably try to hide the fact that they had been arrested not just one or twice but 26 times. But the late civil rights leader Clara Luper wore those arrests like battle decorations.

      And so they were. Only the battle was not against an enemy nation but against the ignorance and intolerance that fostered racial problems right here in the good ol' USA.

      Roslyn Brock, NAACP Chairman, said of Luper after her death: Ms. Luper’s tireless advocacy for equality for all, her passion for engaging the younger generation and her fearless nature made her one of the foremost civil rights advocates of our time (Ken Raymond, Clara Luper: 1923-2011, ‘A true icon in the civil rights community,’ The Oklahoman (Friday, June 10, 2011, p. 4-A).

      I met Clara Luper for the first and only time on August 9, 2006. She was 83 years of age. I had called her a week or two earlier and made an appointment to meet her for an interview in her office

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