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Izola Curry
1916–2015
United States
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Biography
Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was a Black American woman who attempted to assassinate the 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.
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