Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sinatras-Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...
...Ralph David Abernathy has vowed time after time that unless something is done to help the poor, they will bring down "plague after plague" upon "the Pharaohs of this nation." Last week, as his Poor People's Campaign continued to flood into Washington, it began to look as if somebody, somewhere, had mistaken the poor for the Pharaohs and their "Resurrection City" for old Egypt land...
...Abernathys took their two daughters and a son to Atlanta, where Ralph became pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church and secretary-treasurer of King's S.C.L.C. While King, with his soaring eloquence and philosophical moorings emerged as the country's leading civil rights figure, Abernathy became the whip of the movement, and his humor and gift for mediation were invaluable. "When we were in jail," recalls Wyatt Tee Walker, once executive director of the S.C.L.C. and now aide to Nelson Rockefeller, "he would organize things, like appointing a cleanup detail. Martin would never go to jail...
...leader?" shouts the crowd at Resurrection City. "Ab-er-nath-y," comes the chanted rejoinder. All across the country, as he seeks to raise funds and fervor for his Poor People's Campaign in Wash ington, Ralph David Abernathy, 42, hears the same cry. Less than two months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the new president of the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference is doing his best to dispel doubts about S.C.L.C.'s ability to carry on. "You can kill the dreamer," he repeatedly tells audiences, "but you can't kill the dream...
Though Abernathy recently claimed his father was born a slave and earned but a slave's wages, his family was better off than that. They owned 500 acres in Linden, Ala., and prospered even during the Depression. Ralph-tenth of twelve children-was expected to help work the farm, but, says his wife Juanita, "He was just too awkward at farm work and never learned...