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Abernathy

[ab-er-nath-ee]

noun

  1. Ralph (David), 1926–90, U.S. clergyman and civil rights leader.



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It focuses on Haymitch Abernathy’s plight during the 50th Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell, when he became District 12’s second victor.

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Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson, is mentor to Katniss and Peeta in the original series.

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In the prequel, Joseph Zada will play Abernathy.

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We can reflect on a momentous decision by Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Wyatt Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, and other civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963.

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I suspect that King, Bevel, Walker, Shuttlesworth, Abernathy and the other civil rights leaders in Birmingham knew that using high school students involved enormous risk, but those students already lived under segregation and racism and were walking in the shoes of others who had been similarly courageous in the past and this, of course, would be their contribution to civil rights.

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