Word: resurrectione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"WE will not abandon this place," cried the Rev. Ralph Abernathy in Resurrection City, the 15-acre Washington campground staked out by the Poor People's Campaign. But at least one-third of an estimated 3,000 residents pulled out of it as more than two inches of rain...
THE Rev. 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...
Carnival Revival. Before that oozy intervention, Resurrection City had begun to take on a unique, throbbing personality. Life in the compound reminded some of a revival meeting within a carnival within an army camp.
Abernathy (see box), who became president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and took charge of the Poor People's Campaign when the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, moved into the tent city after some of its citizens lambasted him for living at the nearby Pitts...
Who is our 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...