Editing Ralph Abernathy (section)

===''And the Walls Came Tumbling Down''===
In late 1989, [[HarperCollins]] published Abernathy's autobiography, ''[[And the Walls Came Tumbling Down]]''.<ref name=EB/> It was his final published accounting of his close partnership with King and their work in the civil rights movement.<ref name="people"/> In it he revealed King's marital infidelity, stating that King had sexual relations with two women on the night of April 3, 1968 (after his "[[I've Been to the Mountaintop]]" speech earlier that day).<ref name="people">{{cite news | url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20121528,00.html | title=A Bitter Battle Erupts Over the Last Hours of Martin Luther King | work=People Magazine | date=October 30, 1989 | access-date=March 21, 2015 | author1=Kunen, James | author2=Sanderson, Jane | author3=Nugent, Tom | author4=Velez, Elizabeth | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320114153/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20121528,00.html | archive-date=March 20, 2015 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The book's revelations became the source of much controversy, as did Abernathy.<ref name="people"/><ref name="philly"/> [[Jesse Jackson]] and other civil rights activists made a statement in October 1989—after the book's release—that the book was "slander" and that "brain surgery" must have altered Abernathy's perception.<ref name="people"/><ref name="philly">{{cite news|url=http://articles.philly.com/1989-12-05/news/26157645_1_abernathy-white-marble-crypt-judas|title=Ralph Abernathy's Judgment Day With His Autobiography, He Hoped To Secure His Place In Civil-rights History. But Two Pages Of The Book Proved To Be His Undoing&nbsp;— And Earned Him The Label Of Judas.|last=Capuzzo|first=Mike|date=December 5, 1989|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=March 21, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152014/http://articles.philly.com/1989-12-05/news/26157645_1_abernathy-white-marble-crypt-judas|archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref>