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The Forgotten Mothers of Civil Rights History (2022)

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Alberta King's Worst Dream Come True

Alberta King lived until 1974, and I did not know how she died on it. She was playing the organ at church as she always does every Sunday when a man stands up in the middle of Alberta playing; he says, I'm taking over today. He later tells us and kind of tells the media, the news reporters, that he wanted to kill MLK senior. But on that day, he decided that since Alberta was closer to him, he was going to shoot her first. And Alberta dies at the hospital.

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