GA SR686

Georgia Senate Resolution 686 recognizes and commends Brenda Joyce Davenport for her civil rights leadership and community service

Davenport served 30 years with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), becoming the youngest person appointed to its National Board of Directors by Dr. Joseph Lowery

Established hundreds of youth voter registration campaigns and nonviolence training programs, and helped organize the National Voter Rights March and the first reenactment of the Selma to Montgomery March

Founder and CEO of the Rosa Parks Consortium, director of Children's Ministry at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Atlanta coordinator for The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development

Received numerous awards including The King Center Community Service Award, the Georgia Women's Legislative Caucus Yellow Rose Servant Leader Award, and the Unsung Heroine award from the Atlanta Chapter of 100 Black Women