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GA SR660
Resolution
Status
Introduced
2/21/2024
Primary Sponsor
Donzella James
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AI Summary
- Urges the State of Georgia to designate areas of Atlanta's Historic Vine City neighborhood as "Nobel Peace District No. 1," encompassing Rodney Cook Sr. Peace Park and the Sunset Avenue Block from Spencer Street to Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, east to Northside Drive, and including the viewshed from the Georgia World Congress Center
- Recognizes the historical significance of the area, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Life Home and the Historic Sunset Avenue Civil Rights Block, where notable peace leaders such as Senator Julian Bond, Booker T. Washington, John Wesley Dobbs, and Mayor Maynard Jackson lived
- Notes that the Atlanta City Council unanimously approved plans for 18 statues, monuments to four Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Ambassador Andrew Young Foundation and Archive, the Shin Dae-yong Global Peace Pantheon, and a Georgia Peace Column housing a museum focused on 300 years of Georgia peacemakers and the 8,000-volume CT and Octavia Vivian and ML King Family libraries
- Highlights that eight international peace institutes have signed agreements to establish offices in the district, with the National Monuments Foundation and Governor Brian Kemp working to attract these organizations to Georgia
- Notes Georgia's distinction of ranking equivalent to No. 5 in the world in Nobel Peace Laureates if it were a nation
Legislative Description
State of Georgia; designate areas of the City of Atlanta as Nobel Peace District No. 1; urge
Last Action
Senate Read and Referred
2/22/2024
Committee Referrals
State Institutions and Property2/22/2024
Full Bill Text
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