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Juanita Abernathy, long at the forefront of the civil rights movement, dies at 89
Source: Washington Post
Juanita Abernathy, long at the forefront of the civil rights movement, dies at 89
By From News Services and Staff Reports
September 13, 2019 at 1:28 p.m. EDT
Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and was at the forefront of the civil rights movement with her husband, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, died Sept. 12 at a hospital in Atlanta. She was 89.
She had complications from a stroke, said a family spokesman, James Peterson.
Mr. Abernathy worked alongside her husband and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and survived a bombing the family’s home in Montgomery, Ala., in 1957. She was home alone with her daughter and pregnant with another daughter at the time. The Baptist church where her husband was a pastor was destroyed by a bomb the same night.
King described Ralph Abernathy, who died in 1990, as his “closest associate and most trusted friend.” Ralph Abernathy was jailed on several occasions and was standing next to King when King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
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By From News Services and Staff Reports
September 13, 2019 at 1:28 p.m. EDT
Juanita Abernathy, who wrote the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and was at the forefront of the civil rights movement with her husband, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, died Sept. 12 at a hospital in Atlanta. She was 89.
She had complications from a stroke, said a family spokesman, James Peterson.
Mr. Abernathy worked alongside her husband and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and survived a bombing the family’s home in Montgomery, Ala., in 1957. She was home alone with her daughter and pregnant with another daughter at the time. The Baptist church where her husband was a pastor was destroyed by a bomb the same night.
King described Ralph Abernathy, who died in 1990, as his “closest associate and most trusted friend.” Ralph Abernathy was jailed on several occasions and was standing next to King when King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
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