- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Ralph David Abernathy
- Date of Original:
- 1968-04-09
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta
Press conferences--Georgia--Atlanta
Baptists--Clergy
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy speaks on April 9, 1968, at a press conference held during the week of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in Atlanta.
Photograph of civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy speaking on April 9, 1968, at a press conference held during the week of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral in Atlanta, Georgia.
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). - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ralph-david-abernathy-1926-1990/m-3085/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph from Corbis. All visual media copyrighted by Corbis Corporation and/or its media providers
Photograph from Corbis - Original Collection:
- Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ralph-abernathy-1926-1990 - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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