CAU to place marker honoring Atlanta Student Movement
Members of Clark Atlanta University’s Class of 1961 will unveil a permanent marker honoring the Atlanta Student Movement at 10:45 a.m. Saturday on the lawn of the Bishop Cornelius L. Henderson Student Center.
The original building on the site of the marker was the Yates and Milton Drugstore, where the Atlanta Student Movement was formed on Feb. 4, 1960.
In March of 1960, “An Appeal for Human Rights,” a manifesto paid for by the presidents of the AUC schools, was published in several newspapers and heralded the beginning of a sit-in campaign against the segregation of public facilities.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
