An Appeal to Human Rights
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For Human Rights
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The text is available at AN APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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March 9, 1960
In March 1960, students of the six colleges comprising the Atlanta University center, having decided to challenge the scourge of segregation in public and private facilities of Atlanta, presented a manifesto entitled “An Appeal for Human Rights” as a preamble to pending demonstrations designed to achieve the same right and privileges for “Negroes” that were accorded white citizens. At the behest of the six college presidents and signed by the six student government presidents, the document was published in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution on March 9, 1960 and quickly found its way to the New York Times and the Congressional record. It is taught throughout the world as a profound statement of the determination of young people to overthrow the vestiges of slavery and to achieve liberty and justice for all.
the Atlanta student movement
Linda Arnold • Hon. Carolyn Long Banks • Charles A Black
Wilma Long Blanding • Athena Boone • Hon. Brenda Hill Cole
Dr. Herschel Sullivan Challenor • Constance Curry • Dr. Riggins R. Earl
Samuel Jolley • Lonnie King • Valerie Levy • Dr. Rosalynn Pope
Hon. Leidy Watkins • Dr. Mary Ann Wilson-Booker
Presented by Councilman Michael Julian Bond, post one at-large
and city of Atlanta Kasim Reed, Mayor
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Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Todd Massar.