Damage has been found on Oklahoma City’s new Clara Luper sit-in monument after vandals scratched and chipped the statues.

Oklahoma City honors Clara Luper and 13 students with a new downtown sculpture marking the nation’s first sit-in protest.

Oklahoma City holds Freedom Fiesta events Aug. 14–17 to honor Clara Luper and the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-ins. Concerts, art shows, reenactments and a new sit-in plaza commemorate the youth-led movement