Reverend Ralph Abernathy's press conference on election at Friendship Baptist Church. Members of the Baptist Ministers Council meet Abernathy outside the press room. Left to right: Reverend Locket, Reverend Abernathy, Reverend W. W. Woods and Reverend W. E. Simms, Miami.

Ralph Abernathy (1926-1990) was a Baptist minister who, with Martin Luther King, Jr., organized the historic Montgomery Bus Boycotts. Abernathy co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a major Civil Rights figure, serving as close adviser to King and later assuming SCLC Presidency.

On verso: artist's credit stamp, typewritten title, date and date stamp.

Ferrotyped prints have a sensitive surface, usually shiny and thinner, because they are put through a press while still wet. Ferrotyping makes the surface of the photograph smoother. Light does not scatter as much on a smoother surface, so this increases contrast. That makes ferrotyped images better for press photography.

This object has the following keywords:

• Baptist Ministers Council
• Civil Rights Movements
• Friendship Baptist Church
• Injustice
• Miami
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination
• Reverend Locket
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• Reverend W. E. Simms
• Reverend W. W. Woods

• Overall Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 9 13/16 in. (20.48 x 24.92 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen