Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Biography:
"Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief partner in the civil rights movement. He helped to organize the Montgomery bus boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). After King was assassinated in 1968, Abernathy succeeded him as SCLC president and continued the practice of nonviolent resistance as a means of achieving equality for America's blacks. He also led the Poor People's Campaign March on Washington, D.C., with daily demonstrations in May and June 1968, just a month after King's assassination."--"Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990)" New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved January 11, 2008: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike (University of Memphis. Special Collections Dept.)
- Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library. (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated (Atlanta History Center)
- Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration (Black-and-white photographs)
- Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration (Black-and-white photographs)
- Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration (Black-and-white photographs)
- Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration (Black-and-white photographs)
- Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration (Black-and-white photographs)
- Civil Rights-- Eisenhower & the Eisenhower Administration (Dwight D. Eisenhower Library)
- Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project (Carnegie Museum of Art)
- Ralph Abernathy standing at podium in Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall with Rev. LeRoy Patrick in background (Black-and-white photographs)
- Sala Udin (Sam Howze) wearing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., medallion and S.C.L.C. button, seated next to Ralph Abernathy, with women in the background (Black-and-white photographs)
- Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
- Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement (Smoking Gun)
- Highlander Folk School: A Photographic History (Highlander Research and Education Center)
- Photograph of C.T. Vivian holding a strategy session for the Selma movement with Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy, 1965 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of C.T. Vivian, Ralph D. Abernathy, Hosea William, Jesse Jackson, and Walter E. Fauntroy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in conversation (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Dorothy Cotton posing with a man, possibly reverend Ralph Abernathy, in front of a car (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, and Charis Horton standing in a group pose outside of the library during the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- "Integrated in All Respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation (Digital Library of Georgia)
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Albert Turner speaking to Ralph Abernathy at a large gathering, probably at First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy, and others, greeting a small crowd of people while walking toward a building, probably First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy and others, greeting people after getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- Ralph Abernathy getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama. (Black-and-white photographs)
- LIFE Presents : never-before-published Photos From Memphis, April 4, 1968 (LIFE magazine)
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
- Selma to Montgomery : A March for the Right to Vote : A Visual History by Spider Martin (Spider Martin Photograph Collection)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
- WALB Newsfilm (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- WALB newsfilm clip of Martin Luther King, Jr. answering reporters' questions about a federal injunction barring civil rights protests in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 21 (Moving images)
- WALB newsfilm clip of police chief Laurie Pritchett speaking about the arrest of kneel-in participants earlier in the day in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27 (Moving images)
- WALB newsfilm clip of police chief Laurie Pritchett speaking about the arrests of kneel-in participants at city hall in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27 (Moving images)
- WALB newsfilm clip of Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy leading a kneel-in and being arrested in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 27 (Moving images)
- WALB newsfilm of the burned ruins of African American churches in Terrell and Lee counties, Georgia, 1962 August and September (Moving images)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of activities organized for Poor People's Campaign participants visiting Atlanta and a Poor People's Campaign rally with speakers Coretta Scott King, Ralph D. Abernathy and Hosea Williams, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 May 9 (Moving images)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Albany Movement lawyers at the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia and of a mass meeting protesting the conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy in Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July (Moving images)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of civil rights movement leaders speaking to a mass meeting as well as other scenes typical of the Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, 1962 (Moving images)
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a mass meeting as well as a civil rights march and the arrest of marchers in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a civil rights march and resulting arrest; civil rights preachers and local officials speaking at mass meetings; groups of Albany city officials as well as civil rights leaders entering the federal courthouse; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy at a press conference in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a peace and civil rights rally, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 6 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a press conference where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy, and Albany Movement president Dr. William G. Anderson speak after King and Abernathy were mysteriously released from jail in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 12 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a press conference with comments by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. about the Freedom Ride, Montgomery, Alabama, 1961 May 23 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African American sanitation workers on strike as well as comments by African American leaders in Macon, Georgia, 1969 March 24 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of African Americans celebrating and demonstrating as they prepare for the Poor People's March on Washington, 1968 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Atlanta Junior College students who want charges against students dropped and an attorney comments on the situation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1978 June 22 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph D. Abernathy meeting with vice president Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell, Washington, D.C., 1957 June 13 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights leaders promoting nonviolence in a poolroom in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July 25 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights movements and Albany city officials entering the Federal Building in Albany, Georgia, 1962 July (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Coretta Scott King following the assassination of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at a press conference held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 6 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. commenting on the continued segregation of the Lovett School as well as his return from the Nobel Peace Prize trip, Atlanta, Georgia, 1964 December and 1966 June (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leaving the Georgia State Prison in the company of Donald Hollowell, Ralph D. Abernathy, and Wyatt T. Walker, Reidsville, Georgia, 1960 October 27 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recovering from surgery after being stabbed and of his wife and other hospital visitors in New York City, New York, 1958 September 22 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. responding to charges of communist influence in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, 1963 July 26 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's annual convention, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 October 1 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. William G. Anderson, Albany Movement president, speaking about his experience jailed for a just cause and of Marion Page, Albany Movement executive secretary, speaking about results of negotiations with the city in a mass meeting held at Shiloh Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, 1961 December 18 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Jesse Jackson talking about the civil rights movement's change in tactics, West Hunter Street Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973 March 4 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of leaders of the Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Atlanta Georgia, 1963 November 24 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of participants of the Poor People's March gathering and eating at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 May 29 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Ralph Abernathy speaking as the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference following the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 10 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy praying in front of city hall and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Carl Sanders issuing a public press statement from Albany, Georgia, 1962 July (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of reverend Ralph D. Abernathy speaking to reporters about the Poor People's Campaign, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 18 (Moving images)
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of the memorial march and public funeral services for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia, 1968 April 9 (Moving images)
Educator Resources
- Albany (Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (University of Georgia))
- Montgomery, 1955 : Rosa Parks, MLK, and the Boycott That Changed the South (IIT Downtown Campus Library)
- Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement (Montgomery Advertiser)
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection (WGBH Educational Foundation)