From the Vault 247: The Reverend Ralph Abernathy

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PZ0673.247
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We begin our celebration of Black History Month with one of the key architects of the African American Civil Rights Movement, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy. Born in 1926, Abernathy was raised in Alabama and by 1952 was minister for the largest African American congregation in Montgomery. When seamstress Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white passenger, Abernathy and fellow Montgomery minister Martin Luther King, Jr. joined forces and together organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1957, He co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which was to become one of the most prominent organizations in the fight for desegregation. Abernathy died in 1990. Today, we feature the sermon that Abernathy delivered to the SCLC on October 18, 1960, and broadcast only on Pacifica Radio – truly a media outlet at the fore front of social justice reporting.

We’ll also present highlights from an event entitled “We Want To Be Free” featuring Dick Gregory, Paul Newman, Dorothy Dandridge, Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was recorded at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles on May 26, 1963.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

First broadcast on February 4th, 2011.

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Total duration (All reels): 
59
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
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