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Civil rights leader Abernathy is dead
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ATLANTA The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, who created the civil
rights movement with his best friend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but
decades later enraged King's supporters by writing about his
extramarital affairs, died Tuesday at 64.
Mr. Abernathy's heart stopped while he was being prepared for a
lung scan at Crawford Long Hospital, spokeswoman Tisha Burland said.
"What they were trying to do was detect if there was a blood clot, .
. . but they never got to see," she said.
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