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Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King J
Louis (sometimes styled Louie) Abernathy was born in Texas in 1899 and Temple Abernathy was born in 1904 in Tipton, Oklahoma. Their father was cowboy and U.S. Marshal Jack Abernathy. In 1909 the boys rode by horseback from Frederick, Oklahoma, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and back. Louis was nine, and Temple was five. [2]
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.
Abernathy, a chiefly North American variation of the surname Abernethy, [1] may refer to: Anne Abernathy (born 1953), American luger; Ben Abernathy, American editor; Bob Abernathy (1928–2021), American journalist; Brent Abernathy (born 1977), American baseball player; Charles F. Abernathy (born 1946), American law professor
Abernathy (surname) Abernathy High School, Abernathy, Texas; Abernathy Field, Pulaski, Tennessee, United States, an airport; Abernathy Municipal Airport, Hale County, Texas; Abernathy Field Station, Pennsylvania, an outdoor classroom for Washington & Jefferson College
Abernathy (elevation 3,360 feet) is located at (33.8323038, –101.8429491 Most of the city is located in Hale County; roughly 25% of the city extends southward into Lubbock County. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km 2 ), all land.
Abernathy spent his time catching wolves until he was the age of twenty eight when his friend President Roosevelt appointed Abernathy as the federal U.S. Marshall over the Oklahoma territory in 1906, making him the youngest U.S. Marshal in history. [5] In 1907, his wife passed away leaving Abernathy alone with his children.
Abernathy owned Clean Air Industries in Atlanta, Georgia. Abernathy served in the Georgia House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1988 and then in the Georgia State Senate in 1992. In 1997, Abernathy was indicted and convicted of smuggling marijuana into the United States from Jamaica, forgery, making a false statement, and witness tampering ...