• Ralph Abernathy leads the funeral service for Martin Luther King Jr. at South View Cemetery. Also participating are Benjamin Mays (left) and Fred Shuttlesworth, April 9, 1968. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection.

Photo of Ralph Abernathy at King funeral

From Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City by Robert Darden

Subjects
  • Religion
  • General Interest
  • Music
  • History
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