Sunday, September 15, 2019

Juanita Abernathy, a Force in the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 88

The wife of the Rev. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, she was an activist in her own right in the struggle to end segregation and to secure the vote. Read her obituary here.
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