- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ralph David Abernathy's Home
- Date of Original:
- 1957
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Hate crimes--Georgia--Atlanta
Porches--Georgia--Atlanta
Dwellings--Georgia--Atlanta
Bombings--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990--Homes and haunts - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Abernathy (right) stands on the porch of his home following a Klan bombing. Freedom Rider David Fankhauser recalls, "Rev. Abernathy worked very closely with Martin Luther King Jr., and because of his civil rights activities . . . had his home bombed."
Photograph of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy (right) standing on the porch of his Atlanta, Georgia home in 1957 following a Ku Klux Klan bombing. A large hole appears in the brick foundation of the home, and boards hang from the roof and walls. An unidentified man stands with him.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ralph-david-abernathy-1926-1990/m-3083/
- Rights Holder:
- From The Civil Rights Movement: An Illustrated History, by B. Wilkenson
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ralph-abernathy-1926-1990
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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