Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (born 1936)

Ralph Abernathy

American civil rights activist and minister (1926–1990)

Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. Being a leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D.…