Actress, author and civil rights activist Donzaleigh Abernathy spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s seventh annual MLK Symposium on Jan. 28.

March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights ... 2020), Reverend Ralph Abernathy (1926 – 1990 ...

As Donald Trump places his hand atop the Bible, I'll be reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." ...

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right), leaders of the ... The stance he took on issues like voting rights, the Vietnam war and poverty were seen as dangerous and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of many civil rights leaders who trained at Highlander, along with Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis ... illiterate Blacks aimed to counter the voting rights ...

Two years before the sit-ins, King spoke at Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel on the Bennett College campus in Greensboro to charge students and civil rights supporters to agitate for voting rights ... The ...

Actress, author and activist Donzaleigh Abernathy was this year’s keynote speaker. Abernathy is the daughter of American Civil Rights Movement co-founder Rev. Ralph Abernathy and the goddaughter of ...

Their opinion piece also refers to the personal relationship between their late fathers, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Rabbi Israel Dresner. Both men were giants in the Civil Rights Movement of the ...

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