You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

King and Abernathy immediately returned to Montgomery leaving Mrs. On December 2 1955 in response to the arrest of his NAACP co-worker Rosa Parks Abernathy and his friend Martin Luther King organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and co-founded the American Civil Rights Movement. Joseph’s Hospital within fifteen minutes of the shot.

(March 11 1926 – April 17 1990) was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement a minister and a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC Poor People's Campaign and led the March on Washington D. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.