Person
ISNI: 
0000 0001 1495 3345
https://isni.org/isni/0000000114953345
Name: 
Abernathy, David
Abernathy, Ralph
Abernathy, Ralph D.
Abernathy, Ralph David
Ralph Abernathy (American Civil Rights Movement leader)
Ralph Abernathy (Amerikaans mensenrechtenverdediger (1926-1990))
Ralph Abernathy (attivista statunitense)
Ralph Abernathy (US-amerikanischer Bürgerrechtler, baptistischer Geistlicher)
Ralph David Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy (amerikai baptista lelkész, fekete polgárjogi aktivista)
Ральф Абернати
랠프 애버내시
拉爾夫·阿伯內西
Dates: 
1926-1990
Creation class: 
Language material
Nonmusical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
creator
Related names: 
Abernathy, Ralph (1926-1990)
First Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama) (isAffiliatedWith)
Hudson, Hosea
King, Martin Luther (1929-1968)
McGill, Ralph (1898-1969)
Pitts, Greenfield (1898-1969)
Randall, Edwin
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (isAffiliatedWith)
Titles: 
And the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography
Black worker in the Deep South a personal record
Readings in '72
sit-in story (30 min)
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Abernathy, Ralph; David Abernathy; clergyman and civil rights leader, born 11 March 1926 near Linden, Alabama, United States; was drafted into the armed services and enlisted as Ralph David Abernathy, a name given to him by his sister Manerva (1944); earned BS in Mathematics from Alabama State College in Montgomery (1950); served as dean of men at Alabama State and minister of a small congregation at Eastern Star Baptist Church in Demopolis, later at the First Baptist Church; became program chairman of the newly organized Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA); served as secretary-treasurer Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); assumed the presidency of SCLC after the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.; in the 1980s, he broke ranks with most black leaders to support Ronald Reagan's presidential candidacy; died 17 April 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)
African American civil rights workers Educators
Associated Group: First Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama)
Associated Group: Southern Christian Leadership Conference Alabama State College Montgomery Improvement Association naf
Associated Language:
LC data base, 4-28-88 (hdg.: Abernathy, Ralph; usage: Ralph Abernathy; Ralph D. Abernathy)
NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Scott, H. Papers, 1925-1977 (Abernathy, Ralph David, 1926- )
New York times, Apr. 18, 1990 p. B7, obit. (d. Apr. 17, 1990, Atlanta, Ga., age 64)
Wikipedia, viewed July 23, 2013 (Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. (Mar. 11, 1926--Apr. 17, 1990), was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following King's assassination, Dr. Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC Poor People's Campaign and led the March on Washington, D.C., that had been planned for May 1968. Born: Mar. 11, 1926, Linden, Alabama, USA; Died: Apr. 17, 1990 (aged 64), Atlanta, GA, USA)
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