Tired of the racist south a small group of students at the Atlanta University Center organized to change Atlanta, GA, which also had an impact on the 1960 presidential election of John F. Kennedy.

a Trek to the River’s Edge is a documentary film about the Atlanta Student Movement of the 1960s. This film outlines how through leadership, strategy, planning, and action, the students garnered the support of the larger community while striving to overcome the oppression of segregation in contemporary America. Hear the firsthand accounts of the struggles and triumphs from the Atlanta University Center student leaders who organized, strategized, sat-in, marched, and went to jail again and again in the fight to achieve full citizenship, justice, and equality for African Americans.