Juanita Abernathy was born on December 1, 1931 in Uniontown, Alabama, USA as Juanita Odessa Jones. She is known for her work on Pilgrimage: John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement (2021), Eyes on the Prize (1987) and John Lewis: Get in the Way (2017). She was married to Ralph Abernathy. She died on September 12, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.