- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Abernathy family oral history interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany, 2013 October 10
- Contributor to Resource:
- Abernathy, Donzaleigh, interviewee
Abernathy, Juandalynn R., interviewee
Abernathy, Ralph David, 1959- interviewee
Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973- interviewer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2013
- Subject:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
African American civil rights workers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Alabama
Civil rights movements--United States
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
School integration--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Donzaleigh Abernathy, Juandalynn Abernathy, and Ralph Abernathy, III, recall their father, Ralph David Abernathy and their own experiences as children in the Civil Rights Movement. The Abernathy children spent much of their childhoods with the children of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unlike the King children, the Abernathy siblings actively participated in direct action, including the Poor People's Campaign. All three children felt palpably the fear of violence in their everyday lives. This interview offers an intimate portrait of the home of a civil rights icon and of the intense friendship between Abernathy and King.
Recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, and Stuttgart, Germany on October 10, 2013.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Donzaleigh Abernathy is an actress, producer, director, and writer in Los Angeles, California.
Juandalynn R. Abernathy is an opera, concert, and African-American spirituals singer.
Ralph David Abernathy, III, is a social justice activist, and a former Georgia State Senator and member of the State House of Representative.
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0108
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research; access restrictions apply. Before requesting collection materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact.
- Extent:
- 10 video files of 10 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (118 min.) : digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (65 pages) - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0108
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
