The Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) was a group of

Atlanta University Center The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUC Consortium) is the oldest and largest contiguous consortium of African-American higher education institutions in the United States. The center consists of four historically black colleges and universi ...

students formed in February 1960. The committee drafted and published

An Appeal for Human Rights ''An Appeal for Human Rights'' is a civil rights manifesto initially printed as an advertisement in Atlanta newspapers on March 9, 1960 that called for ending racial inequality in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The manifesto was written by st ...

on March 9, 1960. Six days after publication of the document, students in Atlanta united to start the

Atlanta Student Movement 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 on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) and was part of the Civil Rights Movement. Hi ...

and initiated the

Atlanta sit-ins 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, ...

in order to demand racial desegregation as part of the

Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional Racial segregation in the United States, racial segregation, Racial discrimination ...

. Early members of the group include, among others,

Lonnie King Lonnie C. King Jr. (August 30, 1936 – March 5, 2019) was an American civil rights leader. Beginning in 1960, he launched the Atlanta Student Movement, wrote the Appeal for Human Rights, and subsequently started the Committee on Appeal for Huma ...

Julian Bond Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the e ...

Herschelle Sullivan Herchelle Sullivan Challenor (born 1938) is a foreign policy expert, international civil servant, university administrator, and was one of the key activists in the Atlanta Student Movement, part of the Civil Rights Movement, of the early 1960s. ...

, Carolyn Long, Joseph Pierce.Phase Three - Direct Action & Desegregation (See especially February and March details)
- Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement

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Civil rights movement Community organizations Nonviolent resistance movements Defunct American political movements 1960 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) 1960s in the United States {{Civil-rights-movement-stub