Ralph Abernathy
American civil rights activist and minister (1926-1990) · United States · On the map · Activists · Died at 64
Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948.
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Abernathy and his wife Juanita Abernathy with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King. James Reeb and the Abernathy children are shown in the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.
Abernathy as painted by the artist Robert Templeton, oil, 1974
A poster issued by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, featuring Abernathy, advertising a march on Wall Street planned for April 5, 1971
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Being a leader of the civil rights movement, Abernathy was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. and collaborated with him and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led and co-created the Montgomery bus boycott and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Abernathy became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968 and led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., in addition to other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
