A conversation with Donzaleigh Abernathy

Join Professor Miki Turner and Lata Pandya’s “Reporting and Writing II” class for a discussion with actress, activist and author Donzaleigh Abernathy, who will talk about the birdseye view she had of the 1960s civil rights movement as the youngest daughter of civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr.’s best friend and right-hand man.

Turner and Pandya’s JOUR 307 students are working on multi-platform stories chronicling events from 1968, a year many historians consider one of the most turbulent in American history.

An award-winning actress, Abernathy is best known for her roles in Any Day Now, Gods and Generals and Don King: Only in America. Additionally, she is the best-selling author of Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement.

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