Topic: Ralph Abernathy

West End McDonald’s Reopens

Leon Goodrum, owner of McDonald's on Ralph David Abernathy in West End, celebrates with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, store employees and Ronald...

Memoirs: Death of a dreamer

On the third day of April, 1968, My father packed us all into his five-year old buick, and we headed for Memphis to dramatize our support at a rally for sanitation workers. Dr. King was not going to be the featured speaker ...
Son of late civil rights leader Ralph David Abernathy will apply for Ala. pardons for himThe son of a late civil rights leader said Friday that he plans to seek pardons on behalf of his father, who was arrested many times while ...

Ralph David Abernathy

April 17, 1990, Atlanta, Ga.), black American pastor and civil-rights leader who was Martin Luther King's chief aide and closest associate during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s.. That same year he became pastor of the First Baptist ...