Home / Full timeline / Abjuda Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis, Tennessee, woman who Ralph David Abernathy implied had an extramarital affair with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., filed a $10 million suit against Abernathy and Harper and Row, the publisher of his autobiography, “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down”.
Abjuda Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis, Tennessee, woman who Ralph David Abernathy implied had an extramarital affair with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., filed a $10 million suit against Abernathy and Harper and Row, the publisher of his autobiography, “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down”.
1990 (Feb 5)
Abjuda Abi Naantaanbuu, a Memphis, Tennessee, woman who Ralph David Abernathy implied had an extramarital affair with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., filed a $10 million suit against Abernathy and Harper and Row, the publisher of his autobiography, "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down". The suit, which Naantaanbuu brought to the U.S. district court in New York City, charged that the defendants "falsely and maliciously this caused the readers of [the] book to believe that she had engaged in adulterous behavior and sexual relations with Dr. Martin Luther King on the last night of his life." King, Abernathy, and other civil rights activists had dinner at Naantaanbuu's home the night before he was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.