Roslyn Pope

Roslyn Pope was an American civil rights activist and academic. Pope is best remembered as an author of An Appeal for [Human Rights] while the president of the student government at Spelman College during the 1960 Atlanta Student Movement. The Appeal was first published as a paid advertisement in the Atlanta Constitution in March 1960. Pope received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Spelman College in 2013 for her years of service as a civil rights activist and educator.
She died on January 18, 2023, in Arlington, Texas.