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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Ralph Abernathy (pictured), mentor and friend of Martin Luther King Jr., led a demonstration protesting the use of federal funds for the Apollo 11 project when many Americans lived in poverty?

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Ralph David Abernathy, III was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 31 December 2008 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Ralph Abernathy. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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