In June 2017, I spent ten days with my family and several colleagues from Messiah College traveling through the American South on a civil rights movement bus tour. Our trip took us to some of the most important sites...
Juanita Jones Abernathy
Juanita Abernathy: RIP
Here is the obituary from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Juanita Abernathy, the wife of the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and one of the last stalwarts who helped birth the modern Civil Rights Movement, has died. Abernathy’s family confirmed her passing in a...
Returning to the Roots of the Civil Rights Tour: Day 2
Read previous posts in this series here. The Returning to the Roots of the Civil Rights Tour rolled into Atlanta yesterday. We made three major stops. First, we visited the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change on...
The Amazing Juanita Jones Abernathy
The highlight of Day 2 of the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights Tour was meeting Juanita Jones Abernathy, one of the participants in, and organizers of, the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Juanita was marred to Ralph Abernathy, the...