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<text id=90TT1126>
<title>
Apr. 30, 1990: Died:The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 89
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<p> DIED. The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, 64, civil rights
activist who took over leadership of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference after the assassination of Martin Luther
King Jr.; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Abernathy befriended
King when they were Baptist ministers in Montgomery. Together
they led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and formulated the
nonviolent civil rights strategy that dramatically undermined
segregation in the South. After King's death in 1968, Abernathy
headed the S.C.L.C. until he was forced to resign in 1977. He
was criticized by many civil rights leaders last fall for
writing in his autobiography about King's sexual adventures.
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</body>
</article>
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