Ralph Abernathy
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Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. Being a leader of the civil rights movement, Abernathy was a clo
Abernathy in 1968
Abernathy and his wife Juanita Abernathy with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King. James Reeb and the Abernathy children are shown in the front line, leading the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965.
Abernathy as painted by the artist Robert Templeton, oil, 1974
Ralph David Abernathy Home on the campus of Alabama State University in Montgomery
Montgomery bus boycott
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The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the
Rosa Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 20, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after her arrest for boycotting public transportation
A diagram showing where Rosa Parks sat in the unreserved section at the time of her arrest
The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks rode before she was arrested (a GM "old-look" transit bus, serial number 1132), is now on exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.