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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

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Ralph Abernathy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 21
Died: 1990
Died: April 17
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Linden
Alabama
Ralph David Abernathy
Sr.
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