Recognizing the significance of Atlanta, Georgia, as the cradle of the civil rights movement.

Recognizes Atlanta as the cradle of the civil rights movement and honors its long record of activism and leadership. The resolution recounts local milestones from an 1881 washerwoman strike of mostly Black women to the 1909 role of W. E. B. Du Bois in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the 1929 birth of Martin Luther King Jr. It highlights city-based organizing and wins such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, student sit-ins, desegregation of transit and hospitals, the election of Maynard Jackson and the long public service of John Lewis, and Atlanta’s colleges and ongoing role as a center of opportunity.