Eminiic biography of alberta king

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She played a significant role in the affairs of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. Alberta Christine Williams was born on September 13, Alberta Williams graduated from high school at the Spelman Seminary, and earned a teaching certificate at the Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute now Hampton University in Williams met Martin L. King then known as Michael King , whose sister Woodie was boarding with her parents, shortly before she left for Hampton.

After graduating, she announced her engagement to King at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She taught for a short time before their Thanksgiving Day wedding, but she had to quit because the local school board prohibited married women from teaching. After their wedding the newly married couple moved into an upstairs bedroom at the Williams's family home, which is where all three of their children were subsequently born.

The sect has been engaged in a bloody campaign of bombings and killings in parts of the North in the past few months.

The King family lived in the home until King's mother's death from a heart attack in , when Martin Jr. In the home was designated a National Historic Site by Congress. The house the family subsequently moved to was located nearby it has since been torn down. Michael Luther King Jr. Alberta King worked hard to instill self-respect into her children.

King founded the Ebenezer choir and served as church organist from to Her work as organist and as director at Ebenezer is considered to have deeply contributed to the respect her son had for music.