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Izola Curry
Izola Curry (née Ware; June 14, 1916 – March 7, 2015) was an 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 was eventually assassinated on April 4, 1968, in an unrelated incident. Curry was born near Adrian, Georgia. At age 20, she moved to New York City, where she found work as a housekeeper.〔 Shortly after moving, she developed delusions about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).〔
==Early life==
Curry was one of eight children born to sharecroppers in 1916〔(Curry, Izola Ware profile ), mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu; accessed March 27, 2015.〕〔Hugh Pearson. ''When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.''. (pg.49 ). "1958 ... forty-two-year-old Negro woman named Izola Curry.."〕 near Adrian, Georgia, a city about 100 miles northwest of Savannah, and, as of 2014, has no surviving family members. She left school in the seventh grade and later married a man named James Curry when she was 21. The couple separated about six months after their 1937 nuptials, and Izola moved to New York City, the beginning of an itinerant existence that would see her bounce from Georgia, Florida, St. Louis, and New York while in search of steady work as a housekeeper, short-order cook, or factory worker. According to court records, as well as law enforcement and psychiatric reports,〔 Curry began suffering from delusions, paranoia, and illogical thinking for several years before she sought to kill King. This erratic state appears to have contributed to her difficulties in securing and maintaining employment.
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