Donzaleigh Abernathy


Donzaleigh Abernathy is an American actress.

Abernathy was born in Montgomery, Alabama and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement. The Abernathy children, along with the King children, integrated Spring Street Elementary School and began mass integration in the South. Abernathy briefly attended the Northside High School for the Performing Arts, before attended and graduated from the George School, a Quaker Prep School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her father was Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, CoFounder of the American Civil Rights Movement and an influential civil rights leader. She was able to join her father, her mother Juanita Jones Abernathy and witness firsthand many significant events of the Civil Rights Movement. Her family was very close to that of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., another prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement. The Abernathy and King children went to school together, performed extracurricular activities together, spent Sunday Dinners together, vacations and various holid

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