13 Facts About Tyrone Brooks

Tyrone Brooks was born to Ruby and Mose Brooks in Washington, Georgia and grew up in Warrenton, Georgia, where he attended public schools.

Tyrone Brooks began his career in public service at age 15, as a volunteer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, working for civil and human rights.

Tyrone Brooks became a full-time staffer of the organization in 1967.

Tyrone Brooks worked with a committee in Walton County to memorialize the 1946 lynchings of four African Americans at Moore's Ford, the last mass lynching in the state.

Over those years, as district lines were altered by the reapportionment process, the district number of Tyrone Brooks' constituency changed five separate times.

Tyrone Brooks was forced to resign his seat in the Legislature in 2015, when he was convicted of felony tax fraud.

Tyrone Brooks led the successful movement to reactivate the town of Keysville, Georgia.

Tyrone Brooks introducing legislation to divest all public pension funds controlled by the state of Georgia from South Africa.

Tyrone Brooks sponsored a symbolic resolution calling for the unconditional release of Nelson Mandela.

Tyrone Brooks introduced House Bill 16, which resulted in winning an almost twenty-year battle in the General Assembly to change the Georgia state flag.

In 2005, Tyrone Brooks sponsored legislation to repeal the final vestiges of Jim Crow era segregation laws from the Georgia Constitution and legal code.

Tyrone Brooks helped pass Antiterrorism legislation, the establishment of the Positive Employment and Community Help Program, and the Reapportionment Max Black Plan.

Tyrone Brooks was sentenced to one year and one day of prison.