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REV. ABERNATHY, KEY CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER, IS DEAD
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ATLANTA - Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, who helped begin the
civil rights movement with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. but decades
later angered some of the slain leader's supporters by writing
about his alleged infidelity, died yesterday.
Rev. Abernathy, who had cradled the fallen King's head after
he was struck down by a bullet in 1968, was 64.
He died about noon at Crawford Long Hospital, said hospital
spokesman Mendal Bouknight. He had been undergoing a lung scan
when...
