Roslyn Pope has died aged 84
ATLANTA — — Roslyn Pope, a college professor and musician who wrotelaying out the reasons for the Atlanta Student Movement against systemic racism in 1960, has died. She was 84.
, saying it couldn't possibly be the work of college students. But The New York Times ran it on a full page, as did other publications across the U.S. It was read into the Congressional Record as a testament to how segregation was stifling the ability of people to coexist with equality and dignity. Pope was elected student body president at her segregated Booker T. Washington high school and at college. Her piano playing at Friendship Baptist Church led to a performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and later, a Merrill scholarship to study music during her junior year in Paris.
“It just clicked,” she said. “'Why aren't we doing that?' we said to each other. And before the day was over, we decided to start a movement. We would no longer bear the mantle of inferiority.”
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