And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ralph Abernathy
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1926-1977, with brief references to selected events of the 1980’s
- Setting: The United States, primarily the Southeastern states
- Principal Characters: Juanita Odessa Jones Abernathy, Louivery Valentine Bell Abernathy, Will L. Abernathy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew I. Young, Jesse Jackson, Hosea Williams, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Discrimination, Racism, South or Southerners, Protests or demonstrations, Rural or country life, Assassination, Nonviolence
- Locales: Southeast (U.S.)
Some twenty years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., his friend and partner Ralph David Abernathy has published a memoir of his own life that is closely interwoven with the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Citing two basic reasons for writing the account, “to show how life was lived during the era of Jim Crow” and to describe the experience of being “at the center of the civil rights movement as it operated on a day-by-day basis,” Abernathy has provided a comprehensive overview that reveals much about the black experience in America.
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