biography
| name: |
Abernathy, Ralph D(avid)
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pronunciation:
[abernathee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1926–90)
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| biography:
| Baptist clergyman and civil rights activist, born in Linden, Alabama, USA. An early Civil Rights organizer and leading confidante of Martin Luther King, Jr, he was pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA, throughout his civil rights career (1961–90), and became King's chosen successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1968–77). He resigned the leadership to run unsuccessfully for Andrew Young's congressional seat in 1977. Turning away from the Civil Rights movement, he then devoted his attention to the West Hunter Street Baptist Church and the issues of worldwide peace. |
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