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Ralph D. Abernathy Hall at Alabama State Hall is dedicated to him, with a bust of his head in the foyer area. [73] Interstate 20 Ralph David Abernathy Freeway, [74] Abernathy Road, [75] and Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard of Atlanta were named in his honor. [76] Abernathy was portrayed by Ernie Lee Banks in the 1978 miniseries King. [77]
Ralph Abernathy was a leader of the civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., whom he met in 1954; [2] they eventually became close friends. [2] Abernathy collaborated with King on many successful nonviolent movements, [3] including their creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott.
Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard Gordon Street (for Civil War general John Brown Gordon) Ralph McGill Boulevard (for the Atlanta Constitution publisher who won the Pulitzer Prize for his anti-segregation editorials in 1969) Forrest Avenue (for Civil War lieutenant general and first Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan Nathan Bedford Forrest)
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Abernathy was the son of Ralph Abernathy and Juanita Abernathy, the civil rights activists. He was named "III" after his older brother Ralph David Abernathy Jr. who died in infancy. He received his bachelor's degree in English and Linguistics from Morehouse College in 1981.
Sparks was a Black barbershop, half a mile from my first home, in Southwest Atlanta. It sat at a crucial crossroads in Black Atlanta, where Cascade Road became Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard.
Jackson and King met in 1956 when King's closest comrade, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC, invited her to support the bus boycott ...
2013 Cincinnati Bearcats: Running back. 1 Ralph David Abernathy IV – Junior 7 Tion Green – Sophomore 9 Patrick Coyne – Sophomore 10 Jordan Luallen Senior; 21 Rodriguez Moore – Junior
Juanita Abernathy and her husband Ralph David Abernathy follow with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King as the Abernathy children march on the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. Juanita Odessa Jones was born in Uniontown, Alabama.