- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Atlanta sit-ins
- Creator:
- Hatfield, Edward A.
- Date of Original:
- 2008-05-28
- Subject:
- Sit-ins--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights demonstration--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Race discrimination--Georgia--Atlanta
Race relations
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations
Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
African American college students--Georgia--Atlanta
College students--Georgia--Atlanta
Social integration--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in public accommodations--Georgia--Atlanta
Central business districts--Georgia--Atlanta
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Direct action--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Civil Rights movement phenomena of "sit-ins" in Atlanta, Georgia. Students from Atlanta's historically black colleges formed the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COAHR)in March 1960. The COAHR worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to compel local restaurants and hotels to desegregate. The efforts met with limited success until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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GSE identifier: SS8H11 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/atlanta-sit-ins/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "[article name]," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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