OKC Katz Drug Store sit-in, Clara Luper to be honored with monument
June 25, 2026
The $3.6 million bronze monument — with sculptures featuring the Katz lunch counter, the 13 children and the waitress who refused to serve them — will be part of the Clara Luper Sit-In Plaza at Robinson and Main, where the drug store once stood. Planning of the monument began in 2018, when Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt tasked a committee with commemorating the historic sit-in that led to desegregation in local businesses.