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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.
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 ...
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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The article read, wrt to Alberta Williams King's assassin: Martin Luther King said "I cannot hate any man" in relation to Chenault at her funeral but resigned as a pastor at the Ebenezer Church the next year. This ended a period where three generations of her family were pastors at the church since 1894.
Alberta Williams King (high school) Mother of Martin Luther King Jr. Bernice King: 1986 President, SCLC, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. Audrey F. Manley: 1955 President Emerita of Spelman College, former Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, former Acting Surgeon General of the United States: Marian Mereba: 2011 Singer, songwriter ...
Born in Atlanta on September 11, 1927, [7] King Farris was the first child and only daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King, and was the elder sister of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and A. D. King. The three siblings spent their early years in the home of their grandfather, Adam Daniel Williams, who died on March 21, 1931.
Their dates usually consisted of political and racial discussions, and in August of that year Coretta met King's parents Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. [25] Before meeting Martin, Coretta had been in relationships her entire time in school but never had any she cared to develop. [26]