article_snippet: Izola Ware Curry, who stabbed the civil rights leader in the chest with a seven-inch letter opener, died at a Queens, New York, nursing home where The woman who stabbed Dr Martin Luther King Jr during a 1958 book signing moved several years ago.
article_snippet: Izola Ware Curry, (right in 1958) 98, died on March 7, more than 56 years after The woman who stabbed Dr Martin Luther King Jr during a 1958 book signing attempted to kill Dr Martin Luther King Jr with a letter opener at a Harlem book signing .
article_snippet: Izola Ware Curry attacked the civil rights leader because Izola Ware Curry had delusions that Izola Ware Curry and NAACP were watching Izola Ware Curry and preventing Izola Ware Curry from holding a job .
article_snippet: Izola Ware Curry was originally sent to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and spent many years living anonymously despite the 1958 attack at Blumstein's Department Store in Harlem.
article_snippet: Curry, who believed that the NAACP and Dr King had been watching her and preventing her from getting employment, was originally sent to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
highlights_snippet: Izola Ware Curry tried to kill civil rights leader at 1958 book signing event .
  
highlights_snippet: Izola Ware Curry thought that Dr King and NAACP were stopping Izola Ware Curry getting a job .
  
highlights_snippet: Izola Ware Curry  lived at mental health institutions and nursing homes after stabbing .