Committee on Appeal for Human Rights

{{Short description|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.[http://www.crmvet.org/docs/aa4hr.htm Appeal for Human Rights] - Civil Rights Veterans Six days after publication of the document,[http://www.atlantastudentmovement.org/An_Appeal_for_Human_Rights.html An Appeal for Human Rights - March 9th, 1960] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401175315/http://www.atlantastudentmovement.org/An_Appeal_for_Human_Rights.html |date=April 1, 2010 }} - Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights 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.[http://www.atlantahighered.org/civilrights/timeline_detail.asp?year=1960 Phase Three - Direct Action & Desegregation (See especially February and March details)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723083107/http://www.atlantahighered.org/civilrights/timeline_detail.asp?year=1960 |date=2011-07-23 }} - Atlanta and the Civil Rights Movement