Marian Bruce Logan

Marian Bruce Logan (1919- November 25, 1993), civil rights advocate, former New York City Commissioner of Human Rights and a cabaret singer in her youth, original telegram sent from Joseph E. Lowery, as Chairman of the Board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, July 10, 1968.

Stirring content including: "If you would wire words of encouragement to our president [Ralph Abernathy, who was imprisoned at the time."

Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was a leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest friend. In 1955, he collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which would lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1957, Abernathy co-founded, and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Following the assassination of King, Abernathy became president of the SCLC. As president of the SCLC, he led the Poor People's Campaign March on Washington, D.C. in 1968. Abernathy also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). He later returned to the ministry, and in 1989 — the year before his death — Abernathy wrote a controversial autobiography about his and King's involvement in the civil rights movement. The title of his publication is "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography" and is still available.

1 page, complete and in full. In very good condition.

Provenance: From the American civil rights collection of Chip Logan. Son of civil rights activists Marian Bruce Logan and Dr. Arthur Logan, Warren Arthur ‘Chip’ Logan (born 1963) grew up amongst some of the most powerful figures of the movement.