Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the chief aid of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during his civil rights battles and now the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, pauses beside the casket of Dr. King as his body lay in state at Sister’s Chapel at Spellman College here 3/6. The body will lie in state at the girl’s school for 48 hours before being moved to Ebenezer Church for funeral services Thursday 3/9.
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the chief aid of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during his civil rights battles and now the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, pauses beside the casket of Dr. King as his body lay in state at Sister’s Chapel at Spellman College here 3/6. The body will lie in state at the girl’s school for 48 hours before being moved to Ebenezer Church for funeral services Thursday 3/9.
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Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the chief aid of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr during his civil rights battles and now the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, pauses beside the casket of Dr. King as his body lay in state at Sister’s Chapel at Spellman College here 3/6. The body will lie in state at the girl’s school for 48 hours before being moved to Ebenezer Church for funeral services Thursday 3/9.

United Press International · [ca. April 1968]

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[Information from item housing] Abernathy, Rev. Ralph D. Montgomery, Ala., Negro Minister

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