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The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger 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 .
On October 19, 1960, hundreds of students, led by Lonnie King and the new COAHR co-chair, Herschelle Sullivan, and accompanied by Dr. King, staged sit-ins throughout Atlanta with a large number of arrests. [3] The arrested students vowed: “Jail no bail.” [3] As a result of Dr. King's arrest, the protests increased in size the following day.
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.
The seven men arrested at sit-ins in mid-March, 1960, had already spent the month peacefully protesting Jim Crow laws that allowed segregation in schools, businesses and other public places; bans ...
From Sit-ins to SNCC: The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813041513. Oppenheimer, Martin (1989). The Sit-In Movement of 1960. Carlson Publishing. ISBN 9780926019102. Schmidt, Christopher W. (2018). The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era. University of Chicago Press.
Pages in category "1960s in Atlanta" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Atlanta sit-ins; Atlanta's Berlin Wall; F. Funeral of Martin ...
In the 1960s, Atlanta was a major organizing center of the Civil Rights Movement, with Martin Luther King Jr. and students from Atlanta's historically black colleges and universities playing major roles in the movement's leadership. On October 19, 1960, a sit-in at the lunch counters of several Atlanta department stores led to the arrest of Dr ...
Pages in category "1960 protests" ... Atlanta sit-ins; Ax Handle Saturday; B. ... Houston's First Sit-in March 4, 1960; N. Nashville sit-ins; New Orleans school ...