• The Atlanta Student Movement was formed in February 1960 in Atlanta by students of the campuses Atlanta University Center (AUC). It was led by the Committee...
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    Williams aided in the Atlanta Student Movement and helped found both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Atlanta Summit Leadership...
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    Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson (category Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
    getting involved in the Atlanta Student Movement. She regularly picketed and protested with her colleagues in a bid to integrate Atlanta. In the summer of 1960...
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    The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign or student sit-in movement, were a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North...
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    Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was created...
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    Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR), the group initiated the Atlanta Student Movement and began to lead sit-ins starting on March 15, 1960. By the end...
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    notable and accomplished student groups in US History were the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Atlanta Student Movement, predominantly African...
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  • American civil rights leader. Beginning in 1960, he launched the Atlanta Student Movement, wrote the Appeal for Human Rights, and subsequently started the...
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    commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro...
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    Los Angeles in 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to cut ties with the mainstream civil rights movement. They argued that blacks...
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    named after notable Black American clerics. Atlanta Student Movement African Americans in Atlanta Ashview Heights Auburn Avenue Research Library on African...
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    Jews played an important role in the American civil rights movement, forming alliances with African American leaders and organizations. Jewish individuals...
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  • Herschelle Sullivan Challenor (category People from Atlanta)
    activists in the Atlanta Student Movement, part of the Civil Rights Movement, of the early 1960s. Challenor is the second child of Atlanta natives. Her mother...
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    father was hesitant. Bridges was born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days...
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  • Lonnie C. King Jr. (along with Julian Bond an others) to launch the Atlanta Student Movement. King named Boone as the chief negotiator of Operation Breadbasket...
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    An Appeal for Human Rights (category Works about the civil rights movement)
    formed the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, which led the Atlanta Student Movement. Atlanta University's president Rufus Clement suggested that they write...
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  • The Atlanta Inquirer was founded on July 31, 1960 by Jesse Hill, Herman J. Russell, and various students of the Atlanta Student Movement including Julian...
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    1960s, Atlanta became a major organizing center of the civil rights movement, with Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and students from Atlanta's historically...
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  • civil rights movement, the sit-ins were organized by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, which consisted of students from the Atlanta University Center...
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  • Hosea Williams (category Atlanta City Council members)
    accomplishment of the movement, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After leaving the SCLC, Williams played an active role in supporting strikes in the Atlanta, Georgia...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category Activists from Atlanta)
    probation. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Student Movement had been acting to desegregate businesses and public spaces, organizing the Atlanta sit-ins from March 1960...
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    John Lewis (category Nashville Student Movement)
    other civil rights activities as part of the Nashville Student Movement. The Nashville sit-in movement was responsible for the desegregation of lunch counters...
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    The Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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    Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Events (timeline) Activist groups Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Atlanta Student Movement Black Panther...
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  • station. December 10 – Freedom Riders from Atlanta, SNCC leader J. Charles Jones, and Albany State student Bertha Gober are arrested at Albany Union Railway...
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    shift of the movement was characterized by the change from "Freedom Now" to "Black Power." Kathleen was in charge of organizing a student conference at...
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    Julian Bond (category Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
    leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early...
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    save the soul of America." In 1961, he spoke of the Civil Rights Movement and student activists' "dream" of equality—"the American Dream ... a dream as...
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  • more than 100 students from Albany State College marched from their campus to the courthouse. The first mass meeting of the Albany Movement took place soon...
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  • Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (category Civil rights movement)
    publication of the document, students in Atlanta united to start the Atlanta Student Movement and initiated the Atlanta sit-ins in order to demand racial...
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