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Alberta Christine Williams King (née Williams; September 13, 1904 – June 30, 1974) was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King III. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
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.
Assassination of William Cann; Carol City murders; Marcus Wayne Chenault; ... Alberta Williams King; Thomas Knight (murderer) L. Athalia Ponsell Lindsley; Long Beach ...
Alberta Williams King. IMAGE: Alberta King, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King (Al Pucci / NY Daily News via Getty Images) ... Alberta Williams King died in 1974. A man shot and killed ...
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 ...
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 ...
In June 1974, Martin Luther King's mother was assassinated. [21] Alberta Williams King was shot dead at a church during a Sunday service. [22] Alex Haley published his novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family in 1976. It became a bestseller and generated great levels of interest in African-American genealogy and history.
"Alberta King was shot and killed on June 30, 1974, at age 69, by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a 23-year-old black man from Ohio who was a sicko and a murder and felt like just killing someone and probably didn't even know that was who he had killed at the time."