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History > USA > Civil rights
Martin Luther King 1929-1968
Izola Ware Curry 1916-2015
Ms. Curry in 1958.
Photograph: Associated Press
Izola Ware Curry, Who Stabbed King in 1958, Dies at 98 NYT MARCH 21, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/us/
Izola Ware Curry 1916-2015
mentally ill woman who in 1958 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 —
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What surprised many observers at the time of the crime was that Ms. Curry herself was black, the daughter of sharecroppers from the rural South.
Questions persisted about what could have moved her to attack Dr. King, then a 29-year-old Alabama preacher who had assumed the national stage amid the Montgomer bus boycott of 1955-56.
The stabbing nearly cost Dr. King his life, requiring hours of delicate surgery to remove Ms. Curry’s blade, a seven-inch ivory-handled steel letter opener, which had lodged near his heart.
If he had so much as sneezed, his doctors later told him, he would not have survived.
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20 September 1958 MLK is stabbed by Izola Ware Curry
Dr. King said he bore no ill will toward Izola Ware Curry, center, his attacker.
Photograph: Pat Candido New York Daily News, via Getty Images
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. The untold story of the patrolman who took charge when the civil rights leader was stabbed in Harlem. NYT Nov. 13, 2020 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after being attacked in 1958 with a letter opener lodged near his heart.
Photograph: Vernoll Coleman New York Daily News, via Getty Images
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. The untold story of the patrolman who took charge when the civil rights leader was stabbed in Harlem. NYT Nov. 13, 2020 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
The letter opener still protruding from his chest, Dr. King was wheeled into Harlem Hospital in September 1958.
Photograph: Phil Greitzer New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. The untold story of the patrolman who took charge when the civil rights leader was stabbed in Harlem. NYT Nov. 13, 2020 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
A doctor with the recuperating Dr. King, who recounted years later, “The blade was on the edge of my aorta,” adding, “Once that’s punctured, you’re drowned in your own blood, that’s the end of you.”
Photograph: Pat Candido New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. The untold story of the patrolman who took charge when the civil rights leader was stabbed in Harlem. NYT Nov. 13, 2020 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, leaving Harlem Hospital in October 1958.
Dr. King’s career and stature soared in the decade that followed that near-fatal afternoon at Blumstein’s department store.
Photograph: Phil Greitzer New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images
Before ‘I Have a Dream,’ Martin Luther King Almost Died. This Man Saved Him. The untold story of the patrolman who took charge when the civil rights leader was stabbed in Harlem. NYT Nov. 13, 2020 5:00 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/
During a book signing at Blumstein’s Department Store in Harlem, New York, King is stabbed by Izola Ware Curry.
He is rushed to Harlem Hospital where a team of doctors successfully remove a seven-inch letter opener from his chest.
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At the time of the stabbing, Dr. King was promoting his book “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story,” which recounted the successful boycott he helped lead to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Ala.
His assailant was a mentally disturbed black woman who blamed Dr. King for her woes.
Dr. King forgave her and asked that she not be prosecuted.
He later learned that she had been committed to a hospital for the criminally insane.
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