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Martin Luther King Jr. (left), Henry Elkins (center), and Alberta Williams King (right) at Ebenezer, 1962 Alberta Christine Williams was born on September 13, 1904. [2] Her parents were Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, at the time preacher of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and Jennie Celeste (Parks) Williams. [3]
1974 June 30 At Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and Edward Boykin were killed by a man who had determined that "black ministers were a menace to black people." A third churchgoer was wounded.
Other tragedies followed. King's uncle, Alfred Daniel Williams King, drowned in a swimming pool when Bernice was six on July 21, 1969. Five years later, a mentally ill man shot her grandmother Alberta Williams King to death during a service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on June 30, 1974. King recalled of her grandmother's death, "I remember ...
Coretta Scott King died in 2006. Alberta Williams King. IMAGE: Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King (Al Pucci / NY Daily News via Getty Images)
Christine King Farris, the eldest sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died Thursday, according to a Twitter post by her niece, Rev. Bernice King.
Alfred Daniel King was born July 30, 1930, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a son of Reverend Martin Luther King (1899–1984), and Alberta Williams King (1904–1974), the youngest of their three children (the other two being Willie Christine, born September 11, 1927, and Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929). In contrast to his ...
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Alberta Williams King (paternal grandmother) Martin Luther King Sr. ... In 1969, her father, A. D. King, was found dead in the pool at his home. [6]