Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Izola Ware Curry (born 1916) is an African-American woman who attempted to assassinate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. King was eventually assassinated April 4, 1968, in an unrelated incident. Curry was born in Adrian, Georgia and at the age of 20 moved to New York where she found work as a housekeeper.. }
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- Izola_Curry comment "Izola Ware Curry (born 1916) is an African-American woman who attempted to assassinate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. She stabbed King with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing on September 20, 1958, during the Harlem civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. King was eventually assassinated April 4, 1968, in an unrelated incident. Curry was born in Adrian, Georgia and at the age of 20 moved to New York where she found work as a housekeeper.".