R.I.P. Juanita Abernathy
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:19 am
Civil rights leader Juanita Abernathy dies at 87
ATLANTA - Civil rights leader Juanita Abernathy, whose influential role in the civil rights movement helped reshape America's cultural and political landscape, has died.
She was 87.
Abernathy died Thursday surrounded by family at a hospital in Atlanta, family spokesman James Peterson said. In a statement, her family described her as the "last remaining person who was actively involved from day one of the Montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights movement."