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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.
Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was a woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.
Martin Luther King Sr. (born Michael King; December 19, 1899 – November 11, 1984) was an African-American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement. He was the father and namesake of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He was the senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975.
Martin Luther King III, son of MLK Jr., spoke about his family's ties to the Kennedys. "I remember when Mrs. Kennedy came to our home with Sen. Kennedy in 1968 after my father was assassinated.
As early as the mid-1950s, Martin Luther King Jr. had received death threats because of his prominence in the civil rights movement. He had confronted the risk of death, including a nearly fatal stabbing in 1958, and made its recognition part of his philosophy.
The coincidence that Martin Luther King Jr. ... the youngest of Martin Luther King’s four children and who was 5 years old when her father was assassinated in 1968. “It points us back to King.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X met just once, a moment depicted in the series 'Genius: MLK/X' ... Like Malcolm, he was assassinated, fatally shot on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. ...