Atlanta Student Movement Collection. 1960-2000.

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Atlanta Student Movement Collection. 1960-2000.

This small collection of ephemera provides a glimpse of the involvement in the civil rights movement by students from the Atlanta University Center schools - Atlanta - Atlanta - Atlanta University, Gammon Theological Seminary, and Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, and Spelman Colleges. Of note are copies of "An Appeal for Human Rights" written by student leaders from the AUC schools who organized themselves as the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.

.5 linear feet.

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Atlanta University Center (Ga.)

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The Atlanta University Financial Records are a part of the Atlanta University Presidential Records series. The charter establishing Atlanta University was approved October 16, 1867. The University was part of the movement to educate Negroes at the end of the Civil War, and an extension of educational efforts spearheaded by freedmen and abolitionists, and was supported by black and white churches and organizations such as the American Missionary Association and the Freedmen's Bureau. The first st...