The woes and lost promise of Ralph Abernathy

From: Michigan Chronicle | Date: November 17, 1998 | Copyright information

Michigan Chronicle
11-17-1998
The woes and lost promise of Ralph Abernathy

Unlike the sons and daughters of many other Civil Rights Movement pioneers who have done noteworthy and extraordinary things, Ralph David Abernathy III, the son of the former Martin Luther King Jr. aide and exhead of the SCLC, has become a pariah to the good memory of his famous father.

The latest in a series of misdeeds for Abernathy, 39, a Georgia state senator, came when he was indicted on dozens of felony charges stemming from a probe of expense reports he was accused of forging and submitting to the Georgia ...

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