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 ...

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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 ...

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ATLANTA - The search is on for the gunmen who killed a 19-year-old, and injured two others in what Atlanta police are calling a targeted drive-by shooting in the 300 block of Ralph David Abernathy ...

In this file photo taken April 12, 1963, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., right, are taken by a policeman as they led a line of demonstrators into the business ...

Abernathy is a name many Atlanta residents are familiar with, even if some are not quite sure why. The name can be found on city streets, notable buildings and on the tip of the tongues of local civic ...

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 ...

Ms. Abernathy is an actress and the author of “Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy and the Civil Rights Movement.” Mr. Dresner is a writer, journalist and documentary ...