While we mourn the loss of an impassioned advocate for civil rights and justice, we look at her life as an example of what it means to stand by your convictions and the rights of others. The passing of Mrs. Juanita Abernathy is felt by every member of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. We celebrate her life as a “soldier” in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. Credited with writing the business plan for the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott, she and her husband, Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, and Rev. and Mrs. King sat around their kitchen table and laid out the architecture that later became the Civil Rights Movement.
