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Alberta Christine Williams King (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.
Jun 28, 2012 · On Sunday June 30 1974, Alberta Christine Williams King played “The Lord’s Prayer” on the organ of Ebenezer Baptist, the church where her father, A.D. Williams, her husband, Martin Luther King...
King, Alberta Williams. September 13, 1903 to June 30, 1974. Alberta Williams King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta in 1903, the only surviving child of Jennie Celeste Williams and Adam Daniel Williams, pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church.
- The Early Life of Alberta Williams
- How MLK’s Mother Influenced His Thinking
- How Alberta Williams King Died at The Hands of A Gunman
Born on Sept. 13, 1903, in Atlanta, Georgia, Alberta Christine Williams spent her early life deeply involved in the church. Her father, Adam Daniel Williams, was the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he’d grown the congregation from 13 people in 1893 to 400 by 1903, per the King Institute. As a young woman, King seemed determined to seek an ...
Martin Luther King Jr. credits his mother with forming his early thinking about race relations in the United States. “In spite of her relatively comfortable circumstances, my mother never complacently adjusted herself to the system of segregation,” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, according to the King Institute. “She instilled a sense of self-respect...
By the time Alberta Williams King showed up at Ebenezer Baptist Church on June 30, 1974, she had suffered a number of tragedies. Alongside the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, she’d also lost her youngest son, A.D. King, who drowned in his pool in 1969. And on that fateful day in 1974, she’d lose her own life to a gunman. As Then Gu...
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Jan 15, 2021 · Alberta King, the mother of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother, was crucial to the civil rights movement. On MLK Day, we should celebrate her, too.
Jun 5, 2021 · On June 30, 1974, six years after her son, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, Alberta King was assassinated at Ebenezer Baptist Church by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a 23-year-old black Hebrew Israelite.
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Jan 18, 2021 · To understand and appreciate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it’s important to understand the legacy of his mother, Mrs. Alberta Williams King, an academic (she attended Spellman...
