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Committee on Appeal for Human Rights

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The Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) was formed by a group of Atlanta University Center students in February, 1960.

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This committee drafted and published An Appeal for Human Rights on March 9, 1960.

Six days after publication of An Appeal for Human Rights, student in Atlanta united to start the Atlanta Student Movement with Sit-ins in order to demand racial desegregation of their society as part of the Civil Rights Movement.

Members of COAHR

Original members of the Committee on the Appeal of Human Rights include, among others, Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Herschelle Sullivan, Carolyn Long, Joseph Pierce.

An Appeal for Human Rights

An Appeal for Human Rights was published on March 9, 1960

References

Committee on Appeal for Human Rights Wikipedia