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A Short Biography of Ralph David Abernathy

Author Name:

Ralph David Abernathy

Born As:

Ralph David Abernathy

Other Names:

Ralph David Abernathy

Born:

11 Mar 1926

Died:

17 Apr 1990




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Civil rights leader                          
                          
Wife Juanita - four children. Eldest son Kwame Abernathy studied law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia, younger son, Ralph David served as a Georgia State representative. His youngest daughter, Donzaleigh, is an actress and writer.                          
Abernathy received many awards, most notably honorary degrees from Long Island University in New York, Morehouse College in Atlanta, Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and his alma mater, Alabama State University. Interstate 20 and Abernathy Road, in Atlanta, are named in his honor.                          
In 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, Abernathy and Martin Luther King organized the bus boycott in Montgomery.