We sat with City Café regular Dr. Tim Crimmins, Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan Studies at Georgia State University for a look at Atlanta’s first volley in the Civil Rights movement.
Dr. Crimmins on An Appeal for Human Rights
On March 9th, 1960, students from the Atlanta University Center Colleges took out a full page ad in the Atlanta Constitution titled An Appeal for Human Rights which attacked legalized segregation and gave notice of protests to follow.