After the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in began in February 1960 (4), King and his colleagues became empowered to stage their own sit-ins across Atlanta in March. Upon writing their manifesto, they created the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights which organized the Atlanta Student Movement. The morning of March 15, 1960, about 200 students marched across the city and began the first wave of sit-ins. Predominantly these students attended Atlanta University, Clark College, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, and Spelman College. This conglomeration of historically African American higher education institutions was known as The Atlanta University Center, and was committed to non-violent disobedience following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Mahatma Gandhi's teachings and practices.