deaths
June 30, 1974
Alberta Williams King, Civil rights activist (born 1904)
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr.; and as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and also as the grandmother of Martin Luther King III. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.
June 30
June 30 is the 181st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 184 days remain until the end of the year.