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  1. 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. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six ...

  2. Jun 28, 2012 · He died in prison of a stroke in 1995. Photograph: Alberta and Martin Luther King Sr., Courtesy of Jim Peppler Collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History. On June 30, 1974, Marcus ...

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  4. Nov 24, 2022 · 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.

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  5. Apr 4, 2018 · Published: Apr. 4, 2018 at 8:37 AM PDT. Six years after an assassin cut down Rev. Martin Luther King, a man walked into Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and killed the late civil rights leader's ...

  6. Apr 4, 2018 · Alberta Williams King's death is an often-forgotten chapter in the legacy of the civil rights struggle. A native of Atlanta, Alberta Williams was a teacher before she married Martin L. King on ...

  7. Alberta Williams King’s death is an often-forgotten chapter in the legacy of the civil rights struggle. A native of Atlanta, Alberta Williams was a teacher before she married Martin L. King on Thanksgiving Day 1926. The couple had three children, with the middle one, Martin Luther King Jr. born on Jan. 15, 1929.

  8. Mar 19, 2021 · Alberta Williams King’s legacy is deeply woven in the fabric of what makes Atlanta, Atlanta. “She was just a remarkable human being,” her grandson Martin Luther King IIIsaid. Her youngest ...

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