Atlanta Student Civil Rights Sit-In

Students sit at segregated lunch counter in Atlanta, GA in 1964.

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 196u-uu-uu.

Eleanor Fischer interviews college students in Atlanta, GA sometime after the lunch counter desegregation in September of 1961. She talks to a group of students about race relations in the South, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's philosophy of non-violence, the student movement's philosophy, and their goals for the future. The students talk about Dr. King's role in the student and civil rights movement, and whether or not he is symbolic of the movement as a whole. They discuss their hopes for the future and go into detail about how they plan to desegregate movie theaters in Atlanta.


WNYC archives id: 61500