Lonnie King
The Life and Legacy

Commemorating the Movement

Front page of the Living section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from Thursday, April 1, 2020. Headline reads "Frontline students: An exhibit at the Atlanta History Center takes a look back at the movement to fight segregation that took root in Atlanta colleges in the 1960s." An article quoting Lonnie King runs along the side.
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Front page of the Atlanta Inquirer from August 1960 with the headline "Let Freedom Ring." A photograph captioned "Lonnie King was Attacked" runs alongside a letter to the editor.
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King understood that, at the start of the twenty-first century, it was critical to remember the specific people and places of the Atlanta Student Movement of the early 1960s, and he led efforts to memorialize the year of student sit-ins.

Cover of a pamphlet by the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System titled "Families and Institutions of the Civil Rights Era: A Reunion," scheduled for May 24, 1997.
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A page inside the Civil Rights Era Reunion pamphlet featuring photographs of two historic markers of the Atlanta Student Movement.
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Two pages inside the Civil Rights Era Reunion pamphlet describing Mike Mandel's mural, "Sitting Down at Rich's."
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Atlanta newspapers republished Sullivan’s “An Appeal for Human Rights” on the 40th anniversary of its first publication alongside an updated “Second Appeal,” and King and other surviving members of the Atlanta University Center activists broke ground at numerous locations around the city to set up markers from the Georgia Historical Society.

Full text of "A Second Appeal for Human Rights," with an invitation to join the 40th Anniversary Commemoration Committee at events from March 31st through April 2nd, 2000.
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Signed commemorative photograph from the Georgia House of Representatives, 2015 session, of Lonnie King and assorted legislators
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Schedule of events inside the program for the 40th Commemoration of "An Appeal for Human Rights" and the Atlanta Student Movement, from March 31 to April 2, 2000.
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Lonnie King himself was commemorated for his leadership and on-the-ground efforts in the Movement by Georgia’s House of Representatives, and in 2000 the Atlanta University Center Freedom Fighters Heritage Weekend was memorialized. Lonnie King, Jr., passed away in 2019 at eighty-three. 

Second page of Atlanta Journal-Constitution article "Activists," dated November 10, 1990.
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First column of Atlanta Journal-Constitution article titled, "30 years of activism celebrated." Photograph of Lonnie King at the top.
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Text of House Resolution 199, adopted on February 4, 2015, recognizing Lonnie C. King, Jr., for his part in the Civil Rights Movement, affixed with the seal of the State of Georgia.
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