Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
American Civil Rights group
The Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) was a group of Atlanta University Center students formed in February 1960. The committee drafted and published An Appeal for Human Rights on March 9, 1960.[1] Six days after publication of the document,[2] students in Atlanta united to start the Atlanta Student Movement and initiated the Atlanta sit-ins in order to demand racial desegregation as part of the Civil Rights Movement. Early members of the group include, among others, Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Herschelle Sullivan, Carolyn Long, Joseph Pierce.[3]
References
- ^ Appeal for Human Rights - Civil Rights Veterans
- ^ An Appeal for Human Rights - March 9th, 1960 Archived April 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine - Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights
- ^ Phase Three - Direct Action & Desegregation (See especially February and March details) Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine - Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement
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Sit-in movement
- Alexandria Library sit-in (1939)
- Chicago sit-ins (1943)
- Baltimore sit-ins (1953)
- Dresden sit-ins (1954)
- Read's Drug Store sit-in (1955)
- Royal Ice Cream sit-in (1957)
- Dockum Drug Store sit-in (1958)
- Oklahoma City sit-ins (1958)
- Miami sit-ins (1959)
- Greensboro sit-ins (Feb. 1)
- Durham sit-ins (Feb. 8)
- Fayetteville sit-ins (Feb. 8)
- Winston-Salem sit-ins (Feb. 8)
- Charlotte sit-ins (Feb. 9)
- Concord sit-ins (Feb. 9)
- Elizabeth City sit-ins (Feb. 9)
- Henderson sit-ins (Feb. 9)
- High Point sit-ins (Feb. 9)
- Raleigh sit-ins (Feb. 10)
- Hampton sit-ins (Feb. 11)
- Portsmouth sit-ins (Feb. 11)
- Rock Hill sit-ins (Feb. 12)
- Norfolk sit-ins (Feb. 12)
- Nashville sit-ins (Feb. 13)
- Tallahassee sit-ins (Feb. 13)
- Sumter sit-ins (Feb. 14)
- Salisbury sit-ins (Feb. 16)
- Chapel Hill sit-ins (Feb. 17)
- Charleston sit-ins (Feb. 18)
- Shelby sit-ins (Feb. 18)
- Chattanooga sit-ins (Feb. 19)
- Richmond sit-ins (Feb. 20)
- Baltimore sit-ins (Feb. 22)
- Frankfort sit-ins (Feb. 22)
- Montgomery sit-ins (Feb. 25)
- Orangeburg sit-ins (Feb. 25)
- Lexington sit-ins (Feb. 26)
- Petersburg sit-ins (Feb. 26)
- Tuskegee sit-ins (Feb. 26)
- Tampa sit-ins (Feb. 27)
- Columbia sit-ins (Mar. 2)
- Daytona Beach sit-ins (Mar. 2)
- St. Petersburg sit-ins (Mar. 2)
- Houston sit-ins (Mar. 4)
- Miami sit-ins (Mar. 4)
- Knoxville sit-ins (Mar. 7)
- New Orleans sit-ins (Mar. 8)
- Little Rock sit-ins (Mar. 10)
- Austin sit-ins (Mar. 11)
- Galveston sit-ins (Mar. 11)
- Jacksonville sit-ins (Mar. 12)
- San Antonio sit-ins (Mar. 13)
- Atlanta sit-ins (Mar. 15)
- Corpus Christi sit-ins (Mar. 15)
- St. Augustine sit-ins (Mar. 15)
- Statesville sit-ins (Mar. 15)
- Savannah sit-ins (Mar. 16)
- New Bern sit-ins (Mar. 17)
- Memphis sit-ins (Mar. 19)
- Wilmington sit-ins (Mar. 19)
- Arlington sit-ins (Mar. 19)
- Lynchburg sit-ins (Mar. 26)
- Baton Rouge sit-ins (Mar. 28)
- Marshall sit-ins (Mar. 29)
- Birmingham sit-ins (Mar. 31)
- Danville sit-ins (Apr. 2)
- Darlington sit-ins (Apr. 4)
- Augusta sit-ins (Apr. 9)
- Biloxi sit-ins (Apr. 17)
- Starkville sit-ins (Apr. 23)
- Dallas sit-ins (Apr. 28)
- Rock Hill sit-ins (1961)
- Sewanee sit-ins (1962)
- University of Chicago sit-ins (1962)
- Woolworth's sit-ins (1963)
- Audubon Regional Library sit-in (1964)
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