Abernathy, Ralph David
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...civil-rights leader, b. Linden, Ala. A Baptist minister, he helped Martin Luther King , Jr., organize the Montgomery bus boycott (1955). He was treasurer, vice president, and, after Kings assassination (1968), president of the Southern...