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]
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References
Before 1960 During 1960
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)
After 1960
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)
Related
Organizations Sit-in cases Defendants Other
Events (timeline )
Prior to 1954 1954–1959 1960–1963 1964–1968
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