Atlanta Student Movement

Civil rights movement organization started by students of the Atlanta University Center

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Civil Rights Movement in Georgia

State of Georgia

* Gray v. Sanders
* Bond v. Floyd

City of Albany

* Albany Freedom Rides
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City of Americus

* Americus movement
* Leesburg Stockade

City of Atlanta

* Holmes v. City of Atlanta
* Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing
* Atlanta sit-ins
* Atlanta's Berlin Wall
* Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States

City of Columbus

* King v. Chapman

City of Savannah

* Savannah Protest Movement
* Wright v. Georgia

Other localities

* Williams v. Georgia
* Augusta sit-ins
* University of Georgia desegregation riot
* Murder of Lemuel Penn
* United States v. Guest

The Atlanta Student Movement was formed in February 1960 in Atlanta by students of the campuses Atlanta University Center (AUC).[1][2] It was led by the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) and was part of the Civil Rights Movement.

## Background

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On February 3, 1960, Atlanta University Center (AUC) senior, Lonnie King, read about the four young boys that started the sit-in at the Woolworth Store in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina[3] on February 1.[4]

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This first sit-in caused emotional fortitude and physical restraint, captured by the lenses of reporters, exposed a new generation of young adults to nonviolent direct activism.[4] The first thing that came to King's mind was panty-raids and how quickly these raids could spread from one college to another. King believed that the panty-raid theory should be applied to the Civil Rights Movement because racial segregation was ubiquitous.[5] Segregation was a problem that existed all over the US south, not just in Greensboro. King conferred with Joseph Pierce and Julian Bond about organizing a student movement in the Atlanta University Center.[3][5] The three were dissatisfied with Atlanta’s slow pace for change in segregation and decided to act.[6]

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Inspired, like other college students attending historically black colleges across the United States, Atlanta University Center (AUC) students mobilized to launch a series of demonstrations to end legalized segregation in public facilities and on February 5, 1960, approximately fifteen students attended the first meeting of prospective movement participants.[7][3][4] The group attempted their first sit-in on Lincoln's birthday; however, they were unable to obtain a sufficient number of students to participate. Word of the Atlanta Student Movement began to travel fast and Lonnie King, Julian Bond, and others were summoned to appear before a special meeting of Atlanta University Center's Council of Presidents. The presidents spoke in turn, expressing their opinions of the proposed sit-in movement. Dr. Clement, president of Atlanta University spoke first. He was followed by Dr. Mays of Morehouse, Dr. Manley of Spelman, and Dr. Brawley of Clark. The four presidents discouraged students from participating in the movement, instead focusing on their classwork.[6][3][5] They believed in pursuing a legal strategy, letting the NAACP fight the racial battle. The fifth speaker was Dr. Harry V. Richardson of ITC. He stated, "I think that the kids are right. I have a Ph.D.; I head a major college, and I cannot go downtown except to spend my money."[5] Dr. Frank Cunningham of Morris Brown College was the last to speak and he strongly supported Dr. Richardson’s opinion about the student movement that was developing in the South. Dr. Clement, chairman of the Council, was caught off-guard by the latter comments, and asked who would speak on behalf of the students. Lonnie King was selected by his peers to speak and argued that it was time for the Negro community to come together and end segregation in Atlanta.[3][5] Following King's speech, Dr. Clement suggested the students announce their position through a manifesto to the Atlanta Community before undertaking organized protests.[6][3]

Lonnie King appointed Roslyn Pope, Morris Dillard, Albert Brinson, Julian Bond, and Charles Black to draft An Appeal for Human Rights, which described both their complaints as well as their desired goals for the proposed change.[7][8] On March 9, 1960, An Appeal for Human Rights was published as a full-page ad in Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal, and Atlanta Daily World.[6][3] The original full-page ad was republished by the New York Times, Harvard Crimson, Nation magazine, and New York Senator Jacob Javits read it into the Congressional Record.[5]

On March 16, 1960, the representatives from the six affiliated institutions of Atlanta University Center met to form the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COHAR).[3] A unanimous decision was made that there should be three members from each affiliate institution on the committee. Lonnie King was elected Chairman of the original committee, John Mack from Atlanta University was elected Co-Chairman, Benjamin Brown was elected Treasurer, and Mary Ann Smith was elected Secretary. The representatives of the respective institutions were: Atlanta University: John Mack, Johnny Parham, and Willie Mays; Clark: James Felder, Benjamin Brown and Lydia Tucker; Morehouse: Donald Clarke, Albert Brinson, and Julian Bond; Morris Brown: William Hickson, MaryAnn Smith, Robert Schley; ITC: Otis Moss, James Wilborn, Marion Bennett; Spelman: Marian Wright, Josephine Jackson, Roslyn Pope.[3]

## Sit-ins, protests, and boycotts

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Further information: Atlanta sit-ins

On March 15, 1960, just six days after the publication of An Appeal for Human Rights, over two hundred Atlanta University Center students sat in at eleven restaurants in downtown Atlanta.[9] Seventy-seven students were arrested for sitting-in, along with the six students who had signed An Appeal for Human Rights.[6] The sit-ins were used to obtain a “test-case” for prosecution by NAACP lawyers.[5]

In August 1960, Lonnie King asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (no relation) to accompany the students in a voluntary arrest planned for October.[3] The reason for this request was that the issue of Civil Rights was not a topic of discussion in the presidential election of 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Both candidates were ignoring the more than 70,000 Negro college students in the South who were acting to defy segregation laws and demand freedom. However, the arrest of Dr. King would gain enough traction to put the sit-in movement on the agenda of the presidential campaign.

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. Three days after the initial protest, at the request of Mayor William B. Hartsfield, who was attempting to arrange a settlement between the students and merchants, COAHR called for a pause in the protests. As a result of the truce, the students who had been arrested were released from jail.[6][3]

Over the next four months, Lonnie King and the students continued to protest unabatedly. Protestors who were arrested would refuse bail, to crowd the jails.[6] Downtown Atlanta white establishments lost over $10 million due to the Christmas Boycotts carried out by the Negro Community. With the Christmas Boycott success, Lonnie King announced an extension of the boycott to run through Easter on February 1, 1961.[3]

On March 6, 1961, Jesse Hill requested Lonnie King and Sullivan, to attend an urgent meeting at the Chamber of Commerce.[3][10][11] Power members of the white and black community were in attendance to call off the boycott on a gentleman’s agreement to desegregate after the school system peacefully desegregates in the fall of 1961.[6][3][5] The student leaders refused this agreement, as they wanted to keep fighting for equality. However, black leaders, including Martin Luther King Sr. and major NAACP leader, John Calhoun, insisted on the agreement because they have lived every day of their lives segregated and the white leaders are willing to sign an agreement to desegregate. The back leaders have waited their whole lives for this moment and would be willing to wait three to four months for desegregation.[5] King and Sullivan felt betrayed by their elders in the black community but ultimately consented to the settlement.[6]

In the wake of the settlement, students and members of the Negro community expressed their dissatisfaction with the community’s elder black leadership decision to postpone desegregation.[6] On March 10, 1961, a mass meeting was held at Warren Memorial with over 2000 people in attendance. Elder black leaders, including A.T. Walden, Martin Luther King Sr., and William Holmes Borders attempted to lecture the hostile audience about the thought process behind the decision that was made on March 6.[5] The crowd began to turn into an angry mob and Lonnie King immediately called Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to come to speak to the audience. Martin Luther King Jr. entered and would orate one of the greatest speeches he had ever given. Dr. King Jr. implored audience members to “resist the cancerous disease of disunity.”[6] He stated, “If anyone breaks this contract, let it be the white man.”[6]

## Achievements

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The Atlanta Student Movement greatly impacted both racial tensions not only in Atlanta, but nationally. According to Bond, the sit-ins saw 'black property owners put up a bond which probably amounted to $100,000" to get sit-in demonstrators released from jail'.[12] The sit-ins also helped to engage American youth, bringing a younger generation of leaders to the fore and [generating] intense press coverage".[13] In mainstream news, an ABC program showed Atlanta "as the city where, in the programs title, 'It Can Be Done', referring to the city's reputation for inter-racial cooperation".[13]

Overall, the "disruption caused by sit-ins" organized by the Atlanta Student Movement "inspired the effort to desegregate peacefully",[14] as well as aiding in creating "a political crisis for candidates during the presidential election campaign".[15]

## Legacy

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The original work on An Appeal for Human Rights begun by members of the Atlanta Student Movement continues into the present, with periodic reviews in 2000, and 2010. These include the 40th Anniversary An Appeal for Human Rights v.II,[16][17] 2010 - An Appeal for Human Rights vIII) by means of a review, reflection, and revision process by original members of COAHR.[18][19]

Along with the lasting social effects that the Movement brought about, a more tangible legacy can be found near the West End of Atlanta, where Atlanta Student Movement Boulevard (formerly Fair Street) cuts through the campus of Clark Atlanta University. The street was named as such in a dedication ceremony on November 1, 2010, hosted by Kasim Reed, the Mayor of Atlanta.[20]

### New Appeal for Human Rights

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On May 16, 2017, 'A New Appeal for Human Rights' was released.[21] Echoing the sentiments of the 1960s Appeal for Human Rights, the document highlights the importance of recognizing 'human rights as universal and inalienable, as well as indivisible and interdependent'.[21]

Dr Lonnie King, Chairman of the Atlanta Student Movement of 1960-1961 said that the document 'clearly illustrates that the quest for a 'just' society continues to this day'.[22]

## Footnotes

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1. ^ Atlanta University Center District We Shall Overcome - Historical Place of the Civil Rights Movement - National Park Service
2. ^ Atlanta Student Movement Archived April 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine \- The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Atlanta Student Movement Timeline". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
4. ^ a b c Sims-Alvarado, Karcheik (February 13, 2017). "Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement". Proquest. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- Atlanta Student Movement". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hatfield, Edward. A (May 28, 2008). "Atlanta Sit-ins". Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
7. ^ a b Interview (Audio) with Lonnie King \- PBA Online
8. ^ "Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement -- An Appeal for Human Rights". www.crmvet.org. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
9. ^ "Atlanta Student Movement". SNCC Digital Gateway. Retrieved March 5, 2020.
10. ^ Conner, Alysha (February 22, 2019). "Legacy of the Atlanta Student Movement". Atlanta Voice. Archived from the original on February 26, 2019. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
11. ^ Lefever, Harry G. (2005). Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957/1967. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press. p. 41\. ISBN 9780865549388.
12. ^ Morris, Aldon (December 1981). "Black Southern Student Sit-in Movement: An Analysis of Internal Organization". American Sociological Review. 46 (6): 762. doi:10.2307/2095077. JSTOR 2095077.
13. ^ a b Nasstrom, Kathryn (April 1999). "Down to Now: Memory, Narrative, and Women's Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia". Gender & History. 11: 113–144. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.00131. S2CID 144109804.
14. ^ Bayor, Ronald H. (Summer 1993). "The Civil Rights Movement as Urban Reform: Atlanta's Black Neighborhoods and a New "Progressivism"". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 77: 293.
15. ^ Lawson, Steven (April 1991). "Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement". The American Historical Review. 96 (2): 465. doi:10.2307/2163219. JSTOR 2163219.
16. ^ An Appeal for Human Rights vII (2000) Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine \- Atlanta University Center Digest
17. ^ An Appeal for Human Rights v II (2000) Archived 2010-04-01 at the Wayback Machine \- Atlanta Student Movement
18. ^ An Appeal for Human Rights Archived April 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine \- Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
19. ^ An Appeal for Human Rights \- Civil Rights Veterans
20. ^ "The City of Atlanta to Honor the Men and Women of the Atlanta Student Movement". Archived from the original on February 11, 2015. Retrieved February 10, 2015.
21. ^ a b Cartwright, Jill; Elhuni, Asma; Hernandez Padilla, Violeta; Hughley, Serena; Leonard, Natalie; Samandari, Andalib Malit; Olmedo-Fermin, Alma; Park, Daye; Peraza, Johnathan; Zetina, Maria; Black, Charles; King, Lonnie; Pope, Roslyn; Soltis, Laura Emiko (May 16, 2017). "A New Appeal for Human Rights" (PDF). Generation Progress. Atlanta, Georgia. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
22. ^ "Atlanta Student Coalition Releases "A New Appeal for Human Rights" - Generation Progress". genprogress.org. May 16, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017.

## External links

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Archives at

| Location| Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center

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Identifiers| 0000-0000-0000-0013
Source| Atlanta Student Movement collection
How to use archival material

* "Collection: Atlanta Student Movement collection | Archives Research Center". findingaids.auctr.edu. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
* "Atlanta Student Movement Project". Kennesaw State University Archives. Retrieved January 30, 2019.

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Sit-in movement

Before 1960|

* Alexandria Library sit-in (1939)
* Chicago sit-ins (1943)
* Baltimore sit-ins (1953)
* Dresden sit-ins (1954)
* Read's Drug Store sit-in (1955)
* Royal Ice Cream sit-in (1957)
* Dockum Drug Store sit-in (1958)
* Oklahoma City sit-ins (1958)
* Katz Drug Store sit-in
* Miami sit-ins (1959)

During 1960|

* Greensboro sit-ins (Feb. 1)
* Durham sit-ins (Feb. 8)
* Fayetteville sit-ins (Feb. 8)
* Winston-Salem sit-ins (Feb. 8)
* Charlotte sit-ins (Feb. 9)
* Concord sit-ins (Feb. 9)
* Elizabeth City sit-ins (Feb. 9)
* Henderson sit-ins (Feb. 9)
* High Point sit-ins (Feb. 9)
* Raleigh sit-ins (Feb. 10)
* Hampton sit-ins (Feb. 11)
* Portsmouth sit-ins (Feb. 11)
* Rock Hill sit-ins (Feb. 12)
* Norfolk sit-ins (Feb. 12)
* Nashville sit-ins (Feb. 13)
* Tallahassee sit-ins (Feb. 13)
* Sumter sit-ins (Feb. 14)
* Salisbury sit-ins (Feb. 16)
* Chapel Hill sit-ins (Feb. 17)
* Charleston sit-ins (Feb. 18)
* Shelby sit-ins (Feb. 18)
* Chattanooga sit-ins (Feb. 19)
* Richmond sit-ins (Feb. 20)
* Baltimore sit-ins (Feb. 22)
* Frankfort sit-ins (Feb. 22)
* Montgomery sit-ins (Feb. 25)
* Orangeburg sit-ins (Feb. 25)
* Lexington sit-ins (Feb. 26)
* Petersburg sit-ins (Feb. 26)
* Tuskegee sit-ins (Feb. 26)
* Tampa sit-ins (Feb. 27)
* Columbia sit-ins (Mar. 2)
* Daytona Beach sit-ins (Mar. 2)
* St. Petersburg sit-ins (Mar. 2)
* Houston sit-ins (Mar. 4)
* Miami sit-ins (Mar. 4)
* Knoxville sit-ins (Mar. 7)
* New Orleans sit-ins (Mar. 8)
* Little Rock sit-ins (Mar. 10)
* Austin sit-ins (Mar. 11)
* Galveston sit-ins (Mar. 11)
* Jacksonville sit-ins (Mar. 12)
* San Antonio sit-ins (Mar. 13)
* Atlanta sit-ins (Mar. 15)
* Corpus Christi sit-ins (Mar. 15)
* St. Augustine sit-ins (Mar. 15)
* Statesville sit-ins (Mar. 15)
* Savannah sit-ins (Mar. 16)
* New Bern sit-ins (Mar. 17)
* Memphis sit-ins (Mar. 19)
* Wilmington sit-ins (Mar. 19)
* Arlington sit-ins (Mar. 19)
* Lynchburg sit-ins (Mar. 26)
* Baton Rouge sit-ins (Mar. 28)
* Marshall sit-ins (Mar. 29)
* Birmingham sit-ins (Mar. 31)
* Danville sit-ins (Apr. 2)
* Darlington sit-ins (Apr. 4)
* Augusta sit-ins (Apr. 9)
* Biloxi sit-ins (Apr. 17)
* Starkville sit-ins (Apr. 23)
* Dallas sit-ins (Apr. 28)

After 1960|

* Rock Hill sit-ins (1961)
* Sewanee sit-ins (1962)
* University of Chicago sit-ins (1962)
* Woolworth's sit-ins (1963)
* Audubon Regional Library sit-in (1964)

Related|

| Organizations|

* Nashville Student Movement
* Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
* Atlanta Student Movement
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

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Sit-in cases|

* Gober v. City of Birmingham (1963)
* Peterson v. City of Greenville (1963)
* Lombard v. Louisiana (1963)
* Avent v. North Carolina (1963)
* Bouie v. City of Columbia (1964)
* Griffin v. Maryland (1964)
* Bell v. Maryland (1964)
* Robinson v. Florida (1964)
* Barr v. City of Columbia (1964)
* Hamm v. City of Rock Hill (1964)

Defendants|

* Richmond 34
* Friendship Nine
* Tougaloo Nine
* Greenville Eight

Other|

* Sit-in
* Wade-in
* Biloxi wade-ins
* International Civil Rights Center and Museum
* Jail-in
* Tallahassee jail-in
* Pray-in
* Study-in
* Jail, No Bail
* Biracial committee
* Nonviolence
* Direct action

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Civil rights movement (1954–1968)

Events
(timeline)|

| Prior to 1954|

* Journey of Reconciliation
* Executive Order 9981
* Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore
* Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
* McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
* Baton Rouge bus boycott

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1954–1959|

* Brown v. Board of Education
* Bolling v. Sharpe
* Briggs v. Elliott
* Davis v. Prince Edward County
* Gebhart v. Belton
* Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
* Emmett Till
* Montgomery bus boycott
* Browder v. Gayle
* Tallahassee bus boycott
* Mansfield school desegregation
* 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
* "Give Us the Ballot"
* Royal Ice Cream sit-in
* Little Rock Nine
* Cooper v. Aaron
* Civil Rights Act of 1957
* Ministers' Manifesto
* Katz Drug Store sit-in
* Kissing Case
* Biloxi wade-ins

1960–1963|

* New Year's Day March
* Sit-in movement
* Greensboro sit-ins
* Nashville sit-ins
* Sibley Commission
* Atlanta sit-ins
* Savannah Protest Movement
* Greenville Eight
* Civil Rights Act of 1960
* Ax Handle Saturday
* Gomillion v. Lightfoot
* Boynton v. Virginia
* University of Georgia desegregation riot
* Rock Hill sit-ins
* Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address
* Freedom Rides
* Anniston bombing
* Birmingham attack
* Garner v. Louisiana
* Albany Movement
* Cambridge movement
* University of Chicago sit-ins
* "Second Emancipation Proclamation"
* Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot
* Atlanta's Berlin Wall
* "Segregation now, segregation forever"
* Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
* 1963 Birmingham campaign
* Letter from Birmingham Jail
* Children's Crusade
* Birmingham riot
* 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
* John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights
* Detroit Walk to Freedom
* March on Washington
* "I Have a Dream"
* Big Six
* St. Augustine movement

1964–1968|

* Twenty-fourth Amendment
* Chester school protests
* Bloody Tuesday
* 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests
* Freedom Summer
* workers' murders
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States
* Katzenbach v. McClung
* 1964–1965 Scripto strike
* 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches
* "How Long, Not Long"
* Voting Rights Act of 1965
* Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections
* March Against Fear
* White House Conference on Civil Rights
* Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement
* Loving v. Virginia
* Memphis sanitation strike
* King assassination
* funeral
* riots
* Civil Rights Act of 1968
* Poor People's Campaign
* Green v. County School Board of New Kent County
* Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
* 1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Activist
groups|

* Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights
* Atlanta Negro Voters League
* Atlanta Student Movement
* Black Panther Party
* Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
* Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
* Committee for Freedom Now
* Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
* An Appeal for Human Rights
* Council for United Civil Rights Leadership
* Council of Federated Organizations
* Dallas County Voters League
* Deacons for Defense and Justice
* Georgia Council on Human Relations
* Highlander Folk School
* Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
* Lowndes County Freedom Organization
* Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
* Montgomery Improvement Association
* NAACP
* Youth Council
* Nashville Student Movement
* Nation of Islam
* Northern Student Movement
* National Council of Negro Women
* National Urban League
* Operation Breadbasket
* Regional Council of Negro Leadership
* Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
* Southern Regional Council
* Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
* The Freedom Singers
* United Auto Workers (UAW)
* Wednesdays in Mississippi
* Women's Political Council

Activists|

* Ralph Abernathy
* Victoria Gray Adams
* Zev Aelony
* Mathew Ahmann
* Muhammad Ali
* William G. Anderson
* Gwendolyn Armstrong
* Arnold Aronson
* Ella Baker
* James Baldwin
* Marion Barry
* Daisy Bates
* Harry Belafonte
* James Bevel
* Claude Black
* Gloria Blackwell
* Randolph Blackwell
* Unita Blackwell
* Ezell Blair Jr.
* Joanne Bland
* Julian Bond
* Joseph E. Boone
* William Holmes Borders
* Amelia Boynton
* Bruce Boynton
* Raylawni Branch
* Stanley Branche
* Ruby Bridges
* Aurelia Browder
* H. Rap Brown
* Ralph Bunche
* John H. Calhoun
* Guy Carawan
* Stokely Carmichael
* Johnnie Carr
* James Chaney
* J. L. Chestnut
* Shirley Chisholm
* Colia Lafayette Clark
* Ramsey Clark
* Septima Clark
* Xernona Clayton
* Eldridge Cleaver
* Kathleen Cleaver
* Josephine Dobbs Clement
* Charles E. Cobb Jr.
* Annie Lee Cooper
* Dorothy Cotton
* Claudette Colvin
* Vernon Dahmer
* Jonathan Daniels
* Abraham Lincoln Davis
* Angela Davis
* Joseph DeLaine
* Dave Dennis
* Annie Bell Robinson Devine
* John Wesley Dobbs
* Patricia Stephens Due
* Joseph Ellwanger
* Charles Evers
* Medgar Evers
* Myrlie Evers-Williams
* Chuck Fager
* James Farmer
* Walter Fauntroy
* James Forman
* Marie Foster
* Golden Frinks
* Andrew Goodman
* Robert Graetz
* Fred Gray
* Jack Greenberg
* Dick Gregory
* Lawrence Guyot
* Prathia Hall
* Fannie Lou Hamer
* Fred Hampton
* William E. Harbour
* Vincent Harding
* Dorothy Height
* Audrey Faye Hendricks
* Lola Hendricks
* Aaron Henry
* Oliver Hill
* Donald L. Hollowell
* James Hood
* Myles Horton
* Zilphia Horton
* T. R. M. Howard
* Ruby Hurley
* Cecil Ivory
* Jesse Jackson
* Jimmie Lee Jackson
* Richie Jean Jackson
* T. J. Jemison
* Esau Jenkins
* Barbara Rose Johns
* Vernon Johns
* Frank Minis Johnson
* Clarence Jones
* J. Charles Jones
* Matthew Jones
* Vernon Jordan
* Tom Kahn
* Clyde Kennard
* A. D. King
* C.B. King
* Coretta Scott King
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Martin Luther King Sr.
* Bernard Lafayette
* James Lawson
* Bernard Lee
* Sanford R. Leigh
* Jim Letherer
* Stanley Levison
* John Lewis
* Viola Liuzzo
* Z. Alexander Looby
* Joseph Lowery
* Clara Luper
* Danny Lyon
* Malcolm X
* Mae Mallory
* Vivian Malone
* Bob Mants
* Thurgood Marshall
* Benjamin Mays
* Franklin McCain
* Charles McDew
* Ralph McGill
* Floyd McKissick
* Joseph McNeil
* James Meredith
* William Ming
* Jack Minnis
* Amzie Moore
* Cecil B. Moore
* Douglas E. Moore
* Harriette Moore
* Harry T. Moore
* Queen Mother Moore
* William Lewis Moore
* Irene Morgan
* Bob Moses
* William Moyer
* Elijah Muhammad
* Diane Nash
* Charles Neblett
* Huey P. Newton
* Edgar Nixon
* Jack O'Dell
* James Orange
* Rosa Parks
* James Peck
* Charles Person
* Homer Plessy
* Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
* Fay Bellamy Powell
* Rodney N. Powell
* Al Raby
* Lincoln Ragsdale
* A. Philip Randolph
* George Raymond
* George Raymond Jr.
* Bernice Johnson Reagon
* Cordell Reagon
* James Reeb
* Frederick D. Reese
* Walter Reuther
* Gloria Richardson
* David Richmond
* Bernice Robinson
* Jo Ann Robinson
* Angela Russell
* Bayard Rustin
* Bernie Sanders
* Michael Schwerner
* Bobby Seale
* Pete Seeger
* Cleveland Sellers
* Charles Sherrod
* Alexander D. Shimkin
* Fred Shuttlesworth
* Modjeska Monteith Simkins
* Glenn E. Smiley
* A. Maceo Smith
* Kelly Miller Smith
* Mary Louise Smith
* Maxine Smith
* Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
* Charles Kenzie Steele
* Hank Thomas
* Dorothy Tillman
* A. P. Tureaud
* Hartman Turnbow
* Albert Turner
* C. T. Vivian
* A. T. Walden
* Wyatt Tee Walker
* Hollis Watkins
* Walter Francis White
* Roy Wilkins
* Hosea Williams
* Kale Williams
* Robert F. Williams
* Q. V. Williamson
* Andrew Young
* Whitney Young
* Sammy Younge Jr.
* Bob Zellner
* James Zwerg

By region|

* Omaha, Nebraska
* South Carolina

Movement
songs|

* "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round"
* "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus"
* "Kumbaya"
* "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
* "Oh, Freedom"
* "This Little Light of Mine"
* "We Shall Not Be Moved"
* "We Shall Overcome"
* "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed On Freedom)"

Influences|

* Nonviolence
* Padayatra
* Sermon on the Mount
* Mahatma Gandhi
* Ahimsa
* Satyagraha
* The Kingdom of God Is Within You
* Frederick Douglass
* W. E. B. Du Bois
* Mary McLeod Bethune

Related|

* Jim Crow laws
* Lynching in the United States
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* Separate but equal
* Buchanan v. Warley
* Hocutt v. Wilson
* Sweatt v. Painter
* Hernandez v. Texas
* Loving v. Virginia
* African-American women in the movement
* Jews in the civil rights movement
* Fifth Circuit Four
* 16th Street Baptist Church
* Kelly Ingram Park
* A.G. Gaston Motel
* Bethel Baptist Church
* Brown Chapel
* Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
* Holt Street Baptist Church
* Edmund Pettus Bridge
* March on Washington Movement
* African-American churches attacked
* List of lynching victims in the United States
* Freedom Schools
* Freedom songs
* Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam
* "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"
* Voter Education Project
* 1960s counterculture
* African American founding fathers of the United States
* Eyes on the Prize

Legacy|

* In popular culture
* Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
* Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
* Civil Rights Memorial
* Civil Rights Movement Archive
* Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
* Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument
* Freedom Rides Museum
* Freedom Riders National Monument
* King Center for Nonviolent Social Change
* Martin Luther King Jr. Day
* Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
* other King memorials
* Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
* National Civil Rights Museum
* National Voting Rights Museum
* St. Augustine Foot Soldiers Monument
* Olympic Black Power Statue

Noted
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* Taylor Branch
* Clayborne Carson
* John Dittmer
* Michael Eric Dyson
* Chuck Fager
* Adam Fairclough
* David Garrow
* David Halberstam
* Vincent Harding
* Steven F. Lawson
* Doug McAdam
* Diane McWhorter
* Charles M. Payne
* Thomas E. Ricks
* Timothy Tyson
* Akinyele Umoja
* Movement photographers

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