Ralph Abernathy: Martin Luther King Jr.’s overlooked ‘civil rights twin’
c. 2015 Religion News Service
(RNS) In a scene in the movie Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. sits in a jail cell wondering where the civil rights movement is headed. His cellmate, Ralph Abernathy Sr., responds with a lesson from the Gospel of Matthew about the futility of worrying.
In real life, the two men—family and colleagues say—were inseparable. One man is honored with a national holiday, while the other is frequently overlooked, even as he continued King’s plans for decades after King’s 1968 assassination.
