Donzaleigh abernathy biography
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Donzaleigh abernathy biography
Donzaleigh Abernathy
American actress
Donzaleigh Abernathy (born August 5, 1957) is an American actress, author and civil rights activist.[1][2][3]
Early life
Abernathy’s mother was pregnant with her when her parents’ home was bombed in the pre-dawn hours of January 10, 1957 after the successful close of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Abernathy was born in the segregated St. Jude’s Hospital Montgomery, Alabama and lived there through the “Freedom Riders” movement. In 1962, at the request of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia where she grew up.
There, her father, Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. continued his work co-leading the Civil Rights Movement with Dr. King. In 1965, after participating in “The Selma to Montgomery March for the Right To Vote,” the Abernathy children, along with the King children integrated Spring Street Elementary School and began mass integration of public schools in the South.
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