Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother. She was shot and killed in the church by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a 23-year-old Black Hebrew Israelite. She served as choir director for nearly 25 years, only leaving for a brief period in the early 1960s to accompany her son and assist him with his work.
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Alberta Christine Williams King was Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother. She was shot and killed in the church by Marcus Wayne Chenault, a 23-year-old Black Hebrew Israelite. She served as choir director for nearly 25 years, only leaving for a brief period in the early 1960s to accompany her son and assist him with his work. King was also active in the YWCA, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She worked hard to instill self-respect into her children. She died on June 30, 1974, at age 69, in Atlanta, Georgia.
She is buried at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where she served as church organist from 1932 to 1972. She had three children: Willie, Michael, and Alfred Daniel Williams King I. She also had a daughter, Hanania, who died at the age of 12 in a car accident. She leaves behind a husband and three children, all of whom are now in their 80s and 90s, and a daughter-in-law who is in her 60s and 70s. The King family lived in the home until King’s mother’s death from a heart attack in 1941, when Martin Jr. turned 12.
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