Atlanta Student Movement - REPLAY

Archive Atlanta by Victoria Lemos

Feb 6, 202615:53History

When people think of sit-ins, they think Greensboro. But the movement didn’t start, or stop, there. This episode looks at how the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins inspired Atlanta’s Black college students to challenge segregation...

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