2.  1926, March 11in Linden, Alabama  He was the son of a farmer

3.  Served in army in world war 2  After war, he went to Alabama State University  Then’ after college he became a Baptist minister  He became very good friends with Martin Luther King Jr.

4.  succeeded him as SCLC president  a week after Martin Luther King Jr. died, Abernathy led a march to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee  Abernathy resigned in 1977 amid accusations of financial mismanagement, leaving a once substantial and prominent civil rights organization in decline

5.  He died in Atlanta on April 17, 1990.  Died from Heart Failure