STATEMENT FROM REV. AL SHARPTON ON THE PASSING OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER RALPH ABERNATHY, III

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Mar 17, 2016

For Immediate Release
March 17, 2016
Contact: Rachel Noerdlinger/Jonathan Weinstein
Phone: 212-681-1380 For Immediate Release

STATEMENT FROM REV. AL SHARPTON ON THE PASSING OF CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER RALPH ABERNATHY, III

Thursday, March 17, 2016 (New York, NY) – “I am saddened by the news of the passing of former Georgia State Senator Ralph David Abernathy III, the son of the famed civil rights leader. He was my friend and brother, an activist in the truest sense of the word, and the bearer of the flame of his father, who co-piloted the civil rights movement with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He would often come and speak at National Action Network and we spent many hours talking. Even as he suffered with cancer throughout the last several months, we shared advice and a close relationship. He was a model for continuing the work in our generation and of the generations past. He will be missed. He will be mourned. He will be loved. He was the son of a true giant who became a giant in his own right.”