Documentary Tells Story Of OKC Civil Rights Activists

The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at TU presented the film "Children of the Civil Rights" Thursday night.

For six years, a group of children went into Oklahoma City restaurants and peacefully asked for service. Together, they turned around every restaurant, except one, before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

"They never stopped. The very first restaurant they went to, Cats Drifts Store, they turned around in four days. They went to the next restaurant, they took a week. The fourth restaurant they went to took four years. So, they just continued on, but they stayed nonviolent," said director Julia Clifford.

They never made the national news, but 50 years later, the documentary tells their story.

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