Atlanta, Georgia
Auburn Avenue, known as “Sweet Auburn,” was the heart of Atlanta’s Black district during the mid-1900s. The city had long attracted Blacks from the surrounding rural country, and as their numbers swelled, Auburn became a vibrant cultural and economic center. Atlanta was home to a number of significant civil rights organizations, including Dr. King’s SCLC and SNCC. SNCC’s headquarters (first had 197 Auburn Avenue and then at 135 Auburn Avenue) coordinated the organization’s national support network and supplied its field workers with the resources to sustain the work of grassroots political organizing.
People
- Betty Garman (Robinson)
- Bill Ware
- Bobbi Yancy
- Casey Hayden
- Connie Curry
- Donald Stone
- Dorothy Zellner
- Ella Baker
- Freddie Greene
- Howard Zinn
- Ivanhoe Donaldson
- Jack Minnis
- James Forman
- Jane Stembridge
- Judy Richardson
- Julian Bond
- Karen Edmonds (Spellman)
- Mary King
- Michael Simmons
- Ruby Doris Smith (Robinson)
- Tamio Wakayama
- Marian Wright (Edelman)
- Willie McCray
- Ethel Minor
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Mildred Forman
- Billy Stafford
- Lonnie King
Events
- Amzie Moore puts voter registration on table at SNCC Atlanta conference
- Anti-Draft Protests by SNCC’s Atlanta Project
- Georgia Legislature refuses to seat Julian Bond
- Julian Bond runs for seat in Georgia Legislature
- SNCC workers meet Oginga Odinga
- SNCC’s Atlanta Project grows out of Julian Bond’s campaign