A sculpture that depicts the start of the historic Oklahoma City sit-in movement was lifted by crane and installed at a downtown site on Monday.

The 8,000 pound bronze sculpture traveled from California to be installed at the Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza at Robinson and Main avenues in downtown Oklahoma City. The plaza site is the former location of Katz Drug Store, where 13 Black youths, as members of the NAACP Youth Council, ordered soft drinks at the whites-only lunch counter at Katz.

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