Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, integrated buses on night runs were sporadically peppered with shotgun blasts. Then things seemed to quiet down. It was a false quiet. One night last month the stillness was shattered by a series of dynamite blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor of the all-Negro Trinity-Lutheran Church...
...true that the Negroes have placed a guard on their leaders' homes and churches. "Why, yes," says King, "but it isn't new. We've been watching them for some time now." In an alcove next to a Coca-Cola machine, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy works at his desk, making final preparations for that night's mass meeting...
...Official Remarks," he speaks quietly, making no play for the emotionalism that often marks Negro church meetings. ("If we as a people," he often tells his congregations, "had as much religion in our hearts as we have in our legs and feet, we could change the world.") Ralph Abernathy follows with what is frankly billed on the program as a "Pep Talk," and when Abernathy pep-talks, the hall is filled with the cheers and stomps of the crowd. The meeting ends; the Negroes slowly start from the church toward their homes...
...troubles had been no more unusual than severe headaches or mild blackouts, but that afternoon she recounted a weirdly disturbing episode: one day, of which she had no recollection, she must have gone out and bought a lot of flashy clothes-enough to put her and her husband Ralph in debt for years. The evidence was in her closet...
...neither smoked nor drank, but now the patient asked Dr. Thigpen for a cigarette. As she puffed, she prattled in her new, brittle voice: "She's been having a real tough time. She's such a damn dope though . . . What she puts up with from that sorry Ralph White-and all her mooning over the little brat! To hell with...