Atlanta
Sixty years have passed since Roslyn Pope came home from Europe to a segregated South and channeled her frustrations into writing “An Appeal for Human Rights.” The document published on March 9, 1960, announced the formation of the Atlanta Student Movement, whose campaign of civil disobedience broke a suffocating stalemate over civil rights in Atlanta and hastened the end of racist Jim Crow laws and policies across the region. After all this time, Pope is deeply concerned that their hard-won achievements are slipping away. “We have to be careful. It’s not as if we can rest and think that all is well,” Pope told The Associated Press in an interview last week.
