My father (Bill Clifford) told me a story a few years ago of the longest peaceful demonstration in the history of America. Dad is the white guy closest to the raised hand of the speaker. in the photo I asked him what are the most significant moments of his life. The story he started telling blew me away.
Sit-ins in restaurants in Oklahoma City started in 1958 by 13 children a year and a half before the Greensboro Four walk through the Woolworth doors to sit at the luncheon counter. Kids and later adults demonstrated nearly every weekend for weeks, months, years, actually one month shy of six years.
This is the longest peaceful demonstration in the history of America. (Dad got involved two years after they got started,)
This is the longest peaceful demonstration in the history of America. (Dad got involved two years after they got started,)
Both the Greensboro Four and the Oklahoma City Sit-In Movement are unique. Both stories are pivotal in creating positive change in America. Only one story has been told. One story is about to be told.
Co-produced by artist Julia Clifford and filmmaker Bob Ridgley of Binary Recording Studio
Co-produced by artist Julia Clifford and filmmaker Bob Ridgley of Binary Recording Studio
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