; Whereas, in 1960, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was headquartered in Atlanta and chaired by the honorable John Lewis, to focus the energy and efforts of students participating in the civil rights movement; Whereas, in 1960, the Atlanta University Center (AUC) established the Atlanta Student Movement to lead sit-ins to protest segregation in public facilities; Whereas, in 1960, Dr. King, along with 52 other activists, was arrested at an Atlanta department store lunch counter sit-in while protesting segregation; Whereas, in 1961, Morehouse College student Charles Black led demonstrations against the lack of African-American health care workers in Atlanta health facilities, eventually leading to the desegregation of Grady Memorial Hospital; Whereas the Atlanta-based SCLC was critical in securing the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, highly consequential pieces of legislation that guarantee full rights and equal protection of the law for all Americans; Whereas, in 1964, the landmark Supreme Court case Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States found that the Federal Government had the power to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; Whereas political advocacy efforts in Atlanta were instrumental in promoting the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crown jewels of the civil rights movement; Whereas, in 1965, partially as a result of the successes of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 11 Black people were elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, including Atlanta-based civil rights organizer Julian Bond; Whereas, in 1968, 150,000 people joined in Dr. King’s funeral procession through the streets of Atlanta, to honor his memory and demonstrate that further action was needed to advance the cause of equality