Representative Tyrone Brooks is now known around the world as the man who brought down that old, racist, divine symbol, the Georgia Confederate flag. He is a lifelong member of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Warrenton, GA and his Atlanta church home is the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in the west end.

Tyrone Brooks began his career in public service as an activist for civil and human rights at the age of 15 as a volunteer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became a full-time staffer of the organization in 1967 under Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Under Dr. King, Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, he served in many positions, nationally and locally. Brooks is President of an SCLC affiliate (GABEO). He has been at the forefront and involved in the struggle for freedom, justice and equality since 1960 and has been jailed 65 times for civil rights work. (more ....)

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