Yvan huneault biography of alberta king

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She was a Black educator, instrumentalist, and administrator. 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 Sr. After graduating, she announced her engagement to King at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.

She taught briefly before their Thanksgiving Day wedding but had to stop 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 family home, where all three children were born. She worked hard to instill self-respect into her children.

During this period, she continued her studies at Morris Brown College , receiving a B. King founded the Ebenezer Choir and was a church organist from to She served as choir director for nearly 25 years, leaving for only a brief period in the early s to accompany her son and assist him with his work. She returned to the position in and continued until "retiring" in In addition to the choir, King was the organizer and president of the Ebenezer Women's Committee from to In the attack, he also killed one of the church's deacons, Edward Boykin, and Mrs.

Jimmie Mitchell, a retired school teacher, suffered a wound to the neck. King died shortly afterward from a gunshot wound to the right of her head.