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Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was a woman who attempted to assassinate the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. King survived Curry's attempt.
The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, [2] were a wave of civil disturbance which swept across the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City.
It includes mass shootings that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Mass shootings in Washington (state)" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Michael King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta; he was the second of three children born to Michael King Sr. and Alberta King (née Williams). [6] [7] [8] Alberta's father, Adam Daniel Williams, [9] was a minister in rural Georgia, moved to Atlanta in 1893, [8] and became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year. [10]
[19] [20] In April 2018, a judge in San Antonio denied a request to dismiss five new murder indictments against Jones. [21] On January 16, 2020, Jones pleaded guilty to the murder of 11-month-old Joshua Sawyer on December 12, 1981, as part of a plea bargain in which four other charges were dropped. She was sentenced to life in prison.
The Loyd Jowers trial, known as King family v. Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators , was an American wrongful death lawsuit brought to trial by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. against Loyd Jowers .
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Coretta Scott King (née Scott; April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who was the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. from 1953 until his assassination in 1968.