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Alberta King

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother

Born on: September 13, 1904
Died on: June 30, 1974
Aged: 69 years 290 days (837 months)
Birth Sign: Virgo

 

Alberta King

Alberta Christine Williams King 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. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.

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