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Alberta Christine Williams King

Case from Atlanta, GA dated Jun 30, 1974

Victim Details

Alberta Christine Williams King

Female

Black / African American

Atlanta

GA

1974-06-30

69

Alberta

Christine Williams King

07/17/2026

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On a Sunday morning, June 30, 1974, the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, became the scene of a tragedy. Alberta Christine Williams King, a 69-year-old African American woman and the mother of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was shot and killed as she played the organ for the morning service. Just as she finished playing 'The Lord's Prayer,' a young man stood up, shouted, 'You are serving a false god,' and opened fire.

The assailant, 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenaul ...
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