For more than 40 days in 1968, a tent city in Washington, D.C., became home to thousands of people. They were there to protest poverty. Fifty years ago this weekend, that tent city came down. To mark ...

Getting arrested at the age of 6 or 7, was just something COULD HAPPEN, when you’re the child of a civil rights icon. Ralph David Abernathy III, a former Georgia state senator and namesake son of a ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The daughter of American civil rights icon Rev. Ralph David Abernathy spoke at an annual event at the University of Southern Mississippi Tuesday night. Author and actress ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working to cement the legacy of civil rights activist and Baptist minister Ralph David Abernathy, Sr., in U.S. history. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Sen.

ATLANTA — Juanita Abernathy, a civil rights icon and widow of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, has died at age 89. A family member confirmed to Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne that ...

Ralph David Abernathy and his daughter Donzaleigh Abernathy in 1990 shortly before Dr. Abernathy’s death on April 17, 1990 – Photo: Wikipedia Commons *In 1954, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t the ...

Civil Rights leader Ralph David Abernathy was born in March 1926 in Linden, AL. He served as Martin Luther King's chief aide during the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950's and 1960's. He was the son ...

KNOXVILLE - The pictures hang in Juanita Abernathy's Atlanta home, stark and troubling reminders of the rocky road her late husband, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy Sr., traveled to seek racial ...