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Juanita Odessa Jones Abernathy was an American civil rights activist, and the wife of Ralph Abernathy.
Juanita Abernathy
American civil rights activist (1931–2019)
Juanita Odessa Jones Abernathy (December 1, 1931 – September 12, 2019) was an American civil rights activist, and the wife of Ralph Abernathy.[1]
Life
Juanita Odessa Jones was born in Uniontown, Alabama.
She studied at Selma University[2] and after it attended Tennessee State University from which she later graduated as well. She worked as a teacher, and worked for Mary Kay Cosmetics.[3][4] She also served on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Religion, and on the board of directors for the Atlanta Fulton County League of Women Voters and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority.[4]
She was a part of the team that organized the Montgomery bus boycott of December 1955 - December 1956.[5][6] In 1957, her home was bombed.[7][8] In 1965 she walked in the Selma to Montgomery March.[4]
In 2013,