Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 (Personal Name)

NUCMC data from Univ. of Virginia Lib. for Scott, H. Papers, 1925-1977 (Abernathy, Ralph David, 1926- )

LC data base, 4-28-88 (hdg.: Abernathy, Ralph; usage: Ralph Abernathy; Ralph D. Abernathy)

New York times, Apr. 18, 1990: p. B7, obit. (d. Apr. 17, 1990, Atlanta, Ga., age 64)

Wikipedia, viewed July 23, 2013 (Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. (Mar. 11, 1926--Apr. 17, 1990), was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following King's assassination, Dr. Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC Poor People's Campaign and led the March on Washington, D.C., that had been planned for May 1968. Born: Mar. 11, 1926, Linden, Alabama, USA; Died: Apr. 17, 1990 (aged 64), Atlanta, GA, USA)

African American National Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abernathy, Ralph; David Abernathy; clergyman and civil rights leader, born 11 March 1926 near Linden, Alabama, United States; was drafted into the armed services and enlisted as Ralph David Abernathy, a name given to him by his sister Manerva (1944); earned BS in Mathematics from Alabama State College in Montgomery (1950); served as dean of men at Alabama State and minister of a small congregation at Eastern Star Baptist Church in Demopolis, later at the First Baptist Church; became program chairman of the newly organized Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA); served as secretary-treasurer Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); assumed the presidency of SCLC after the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr.; in the 1980s, he broke ranks with most black leaders to support Ronald Reagan's presidential candidacy; died 17 April 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)