MLK Commission
Welcome 2010 MLK Luncheon – "Celebrating the Dream through Unity and Service" Date: Place: Time: This event is sponsored by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Keynote Speaker . Our Keynote Speaker will be Juanita Abernathy, wife of the late Reverend Ralph David Abernathy and inductee of the International Civil Rights Hall of Fame. As a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement, Juanita Abernathy participated in all of the pivotal protests of the era. She helped rally the black community in Montgomery, Alabama as her husband Rev. Ralph David Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956). She remained fearless in the face of relentless death threats meant to stop her and her husband’s activism. In January 1957 while her husband and King traveled to Atlanta to establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Juanita Abernathy and her infant daughter miraculously survived the bombing of their home by white supremacists. Abernathy continued her activism when she and her family moved to Atlanta in 1961. She worked to spur school desegregation in the city by enrolling her children in independent white schools. She accompanied her husband to the 1963 March on Washington and walked with him on the frontlines of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. In 1966, Abernathy and her husband, along with Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta resided in a Chicago slum to protest housing conditions for African Americans in what was then the most racially segregated large city in America. In recent years, Abernathy has traveled around the world speaking about her late husband’s leadership role, her own experiences in the struggle and urging others to continue the fight for justice and equality. 
Abernathy serves on the Board of Trustees for the Morehouse School of Religion. She is also on the board of directors for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) and the Atlanta Fulton County League of Women Voters.
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