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- On August 3, 1995, he suffered a stroke, and was taken to a hospital. On August 19, he died aged 44 from complications from his stroke.
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King and Boykin were rushed to the nearby Grady Memorial Hospital. Officials announced King was "barely alive" when she arrived at the hospital. Boykin was pronounced dead on arrival. King died shortly afterward from a gunshot wound to the right of her head. Alberta King was interred at the South-View Cemetery in Atlanta.
Jun 28, 2012 · This was later reduced to life in prison, in part at the insistence of King family members who opposed the death penalty. He died in prison of a stroke in 1995 .
Nov 24, 2022 · The mother of Martin Luther King Jr., Alberta Williams King was a church choir director and activist who was tragically shot to death in 1974.
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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 ...
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 ...
July 1974 -- Martin Luther King Sr. grieves during the funeral service of his wife, Alberta Williams King. Mrs. King, 69, was shot to death by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault as she...
In 1974, as she played the organ during Sunday services at Ebenezer, Alberta Williams King was shot by Marcus Chenault, a 21-year-old man from Ohio who claimed, “All Christians are my enemies” (“Atlanta: Another King Killed”). Alberta Williams King died later that day at the age of 70. Footnotes.
