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 univers ...

students formed in February 1960. The committee drafted and published An Appeal for Human Rights 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 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, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...

. Early members of the group include, among others, Lonnie King,

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, 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