| NAME OF PERSON | DESCRIPTION |
| Ralph Abernathy | was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott, and co-founded and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968, where he led the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C. among other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality. |
| DESCRIPTION | NAME OF SITE | CITY | STATE |
| BIRTHPLACE | 500 ACRE FARM | LINDEN | ALABAMA |
| HE WAS A PASTOR | FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | MONTGOMERY | ALABAMA |
| ALMA MATER | LINDEN ACADEMY | LINDEN | ALABAMA |
| ALMA MATER | ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY | MONTGOMERY | ALABAMA |
| ALMA MATER | ATLANTA UNIVERSITY | ATLANTA | GEORGIA |
| HOME | ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY | MONTGOMERY | ALABAMA |
| DIED | EMORY CRAWFORD LONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | ATLANTA | GEORGIA |
| BURIAL | LINCOLN CEMETRY | ATLANTA | GEORGIA |
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