Clara Luper, schoolteacher, civil rights activist, and leader of the first nationally recognized anti-segregation sit-in in Oklahoma City 1958, recently died June 8. In 1972 she ran unsuccessfully for election to the United States Senate. When asked by the press if she, a black woman, could represent white people, she responded: “Of course, I can represent white people, black people, red people, yellow people, brown people, and polka dot people. You see, I have lived long enough to know that people are people.”
An interview with Clara Luper
Wikipedia page on Clara Luper
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