Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (died 1974)

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.

September 13 is the 256th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 109 days remain until the end of the year.