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Albany State hosts Black History Month lecture
Posted: 02.21.2013 at 11:40 AM
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Abernathy will be the keynote speaker at the ASU Department of History and Political Science Black History Month lecture Friday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. in Simmons Hall, Room 101.  / Albany State University
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During the 1968 Civil Rights Movement, then nine year old Ralph D. Abernathy III, without his parent’s knowledge, stood alongside men and women, who were caught up in the push for equality. Arrested as part of a “mule train” march to a Martin Luther King Jr. rally, he was held in a warehouse alongside 250 other marchers.

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