Izola Curry ( Ware ; June 14 , 1916 – March 7 , 2015 ) was an African-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 . King survived Curry 's attempt , and forgave her , and was killed less than ten years later in an unrelated incident
killed less than ten years later
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Izola Curry