Rep. Lewis Issues Statement on Death of Civil Rights Icon Abernathy
September 12, 2019
September 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, issued the following statement on death of Juanita Abernathy, the wife of the late Rev. David Abernathy, the right hand to Martin Luther King Jr.:
"Juanita could have lived a comfortable life. Her father was a prosperous dairyman and cotton farmer in Uniontown, Alabama who could afford to send her to a boarding school in Selma in the 1940s. But she decided to dedicate her life to building a society more at peace with itself, t . . .
"Juanita could have lived a comfortable life. Her father was a prosperous dairyman and cotton farmer in Uniontown, Alabama who could afford to send her to a boarding school in Selma in the 1940s. But she decided to dedicate her life to building a society more at peace with itself, t . . .