His grandfather, Ralph David Abernathy, was a close friend of Martin Luther King, Jr. and was himself an icon of the civil rights movement. Though Micah never met his grandfather, the impact he had on Micah’s life and career is palpable to the Green Bay Packers’ safety and those lessons served him well on the long road to the NFL.
“I felt like my parents and my grandma, his wife, Juanita Jones Abernathy, did a great job letting us know who he was and not just as a civil rights leader but as a family man,” Micah told Acme Packing Company earlier this week.