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Izola Ware Curry, Who Stabbed King in 1958, Dies at 98
www.nytimes.com
In 1958, Ms. Curry stabbed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a Harlem book signing — an episode that a decade later would become a rhetorical touchstone in the last oration of his life.
