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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closest adviser from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that sparked the civil rights movement to the Memphis motel where King was slain. He cradled the dying King in his arms and succeeded him as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Now Abernathy, 63, who was forced out as SCLC's president in 1977, has spilled the most intimate secrets to which his close association made him privy in his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tattletale Memoir | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...would Abernathy add an unsavory note to the memory of King's murder? He complains that King's other aides saw him as "no more than an appendage to Martin," so he may have wished to underscore his leading role in SCLC. His declared purpose, however, was "to render justice to the dead without causing too much unnecessary pain to the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tattletale Memoir | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Many of King's other friends and associates banded together last week to ! demand that Abernathy "repudiate" his account of King's last hours. Among those signing a wire of protest were Jesse Jackson, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, and SCLC's current president, Joseph Lowery. They speculated that "to sell books" someone other than Abernathy wrote the offending passages. But Harper & Row spokesman Steve Sorrentino insists that "the book is entirely Abernathy's words." In Memphis on a promotion tour, Abernathy, who has had two strokes and suffers from glaucoma, declared, "I am not a Judas. I have written nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tattletale Memoir | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Some of the disintegration of the campus protest movement naturally comes from the aging of any extremist group as its views and tactics move toward the center (or as the center moves toward it). A similar phenomenon accompanied the success of SCLC and SNCC in the civil rights movement. Perhaps the divestment movement is just becoming old and tired--especially to the students that have watched it spring after spring...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Ties and Takeovers Don't Mix | 4/12/1988 | See Source »

...Southern Christian Leadership Conference was being shoved out of its original nest in Atlanta and was meeting resistance from established black preachers in Chicago. Jackson, who was not even a minister yet (and therefore less of a threat) was given Operation Breadbasket to operate on indeterminate territory partway between SCLC and Chicago's local pastors. The group met, as its successor Operation PUSH still does, on Saturday mornings, so as not to invade the sacred turf of the Sunday preachers. Jackson was "included out" from the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making History with Silo Sam | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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