Committee on Appeal for Human Rights

American Civil Rights group

The Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR) was a group of Atlanta University Center students formed in February 1960. The committee drafted and published An Appeal for Human Rights on March 9, 1960.^[1] Six days after publication of the document,^[2] students in Atlanta united to start the Atlanta Student Movement and initiated the Atlanta sit-ins in order to demand racial desegregation as part of the Civil Rights Movement. Early members of the group include, among others, Lonnie King, Julian Bond, Herschelle Sullivan, Carolyn Long, Joseph Pierce.^[3]

References

^ Appeal for Human Rights - Civil Rights Veterans
^ An Appeal for Human Rights - March 9th, 1960 Archived April 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine - Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights
^ Phase Three - Direct Action & Desegregation (See especially February and March details) Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine - Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement

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)

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

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
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 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.