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Jun 5, 2021 · Alberta Christine (Williams) King, a retired organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church and a choir director, wore many hats in her family and community, as she also was the wife of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., mother of Alfred Daniel Williams King I (1930), Willie Christine King Farris (1927), and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (slain Civil Rights ...
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.
Jan 15, 2021 · Dr. Martin Luther King with his mother Alberta and his wife, Coretta, smiling and cheerful during a press conference at Harlem Hospital, N.Y., in 1958. Al Pucci—NY Daily News Archive/Getty ...
Jan 18, 2021 · Tony Camerano/AP. “My mother, Alberta Williams King was behind the scenes setting forth those motherly cares, the lack of which leaves a missing link in life.”. To understand and appreciate ...
NY: Doubleday, 1985. King, Alberta Williams (1903–1974)African-American church organist and mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. Name variations: Mama King. Born Alberta Christine Williams in 1903; assassinated in 1974; daughter of Reverend Adam Daniels Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church; married Martin Luther King, Sr. (b.
Jan 16, 2022 · Martin Luther King Sr., Alberta Williams King, Coretta Scott King and Christine Farris boarding a plane to travel to the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. King in 1964. (Photo by Hulton ...
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 ...
