AUC Student Activists 2

In 1960, Don Clarke was President of the student body of Morehouse College. He was a founding member of COAHR and one of the six signers of An Appeal for Human Rights.

Anne Borders (Patterson) was a junior at Spelman in 1960, and served as an organizer in the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights.

Robert Mants was the youngest member of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, joining when he was only 16. He attended Morehouse College and worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Georgia.

Morris Dillard was a Morehouse College student and member of the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights. Along with James Felder, a Clark College student, Dillard served as co-chair of the public relations committee.

Ruby Doris Smith (Robinson), a Spelman student,  was a devoted member of both the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She participated in numerous protests and arrested many times.  She dropped out of school in 1961 to work full time with SNCC and was the first female to serve as executive secretary.  She later completed her degree at Spelman in 1965.  She particpated in Freedom Rides organized by COAHR and SNCC, protesting segregated waiting rooms in southern bus stations.  

Norma June Wilson was a Spelman senior involved with the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights. Having been arrested with other Spelmanite women and imprisoned at Fulton County Jail on February 9, 1961, Wilson kept a detailed diary on the students' time in jail.

A Morehouse College student, Charles Black was elected as chair of the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights after Lonnie King graduated in 1961.  He led numerous protests and negotiated to end segregation of theaters in Atlanta.  

Marilyn Pryce (Hoytt) was a Spelmanite in the Atlanta Student Movement. Initially a foot soldier of the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights, Pryce was one of the students arrested at Rich's Department Store on October 19, 1960.

Gwendolyn Harris (Middlebrooks), a student at Spelman College, was a member of the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights.

Gwendolyn Iles (Foster) was a Spelman College student and active member of the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights and served as co-chair. Iles was one of many students arrested with Martin Luther King Jr. on October 19, 1960 after a sit-in at Rich's Department Store. 

Ann Ashmore (Hudson) was a freshman at Spelman College when she joined the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights. Ashmore was one of the seventy-seven students arrested at the March 15, 1960 sit-ins. 

Georgianne Thomas was a Spelman College student and foot soldier in the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights. She went on to document the efforts of the movement's foot soldiers in a film titled Foot Soldiers: Class of 1964.

Herschelle Sullivan (Challenor) was a student at Spelman College and the elected co-chair of the Committee On Appeal for Human Rights. Sullivan contributed to the creation of the Appeal.

Rev. Otis Moss, Jr. was a student pastor and attended of Morehouse College in 1961. Known within the Committee as the "field commander."