Born to Rebel, Dr Benjamin Elijah Mays Autobiography, circa 1970
Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights
1969/1972
1970-1979
An excerpt from chapter 21, titled "I Can Sing Atlanta The Young Warriors", of Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays' book Born to Rebel An Autobiography. Dr. Mays talks about In 1960, students from Morehouse and Spelman colleges planned a sit-in demonstration to protest against the discrimination faced by Black people in Atlanta's downtown restaurants. The plan was inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins, where four students refused to leave a white store's lunch counter and sparked a revolution against segregation in eating establishments in the South. The six presidents of the Atlanta University Center were supportive of the students' plans, but each student was encouraged to make their own decision and be prepared to face the consequences for violating the unjust law. 14 pages.
African Americans--Civil rights African American student movements Groups and organizations Protest movements African American students
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Mary Ann Smith Wilson, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Collection on Student Activism
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:078
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Georgia--Atlanta
Mary Ann Smith Wilson
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.078:0323
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