Alberta Williams King gave the civil rights movement melody, a tune of great triumph and a coda of grievous tragedy.
The gospel musician and mother had already buried two sons when the sounds of a Sunday testimony to Christ were interrupted by gunfire – her violent death before the altar largely forgotten to history.
Alberta King was the mother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Christian crusade for civil rights.
“Just like any movement that’s ever been successful, they’ve always been established in Christ and in God,” her granddaughter, Dr. Alveda King, told Fox News Digital.
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The chair of the America First Policy Institute’s Center for the American Dream, Alveda King is the daughter of Rev. Alfred Daniel, Alberta’s third child, and the niece of his older brother, Martin Jr.
She added, “Men and women who fear God are genuine leaders of justice. That’s true through biblical history and its true through modern history.”
Alberta King and the civil rights movement were born by the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia — each bathed in the light of faith at birth.
She was a musician, a scholar and a champion for civil rights before the words entered the cultural lexicon.
“I often tell the boys around the campus I have the best mother in the world.” — Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I just remember her grace, her beauty, her loving spirit and her dignity. She was a beautifully fabulous musician,” said Alveda King.
Alberta King was, most notably, devoted to the most important role in any society. As a mother, she brought three children into the world and taught them to work to make that world a better place.
She was quite gifted in the role of mother, as King Jr. wrote in a letter home while at seminary school.
“I often tell the boys around the campus I have the best mother in the world.”
Nourished by music and the Gospel
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