Alberta Christine King, mother
of Martin Luther King, Jr. was
murdered in Ebenezer Bapist
Church, Atlanta, GA. this day in 1974.
Mrs. King was playing, "The Lord's Prayer"
during the Sunday service.
As organist, she founded and trained the "Ebenezer
Choir". Mrs. King was also the organizer
and president of the Ebenezer Woman's Council.
A great and gentle woman she changed the world with
peace and hope.

In 1936, "Gone With The Wind" by Maragret Mitchell.
was published. Changing the south forever. Oh,
Fiddlee-de.

"Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself."
~Maria Goeppert Mayer

Madame Emma Azalia Hackley
African-American Classical singer, social worker,
writer, and philanthropist was born this day in 1867.

Madame Hackley believed in the use of African-American
folk music and spirituals as a tool for social change.
Truly setting the stage for the Civil Rights Movement.

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole
universe to order."
~ Virginia Wolf

Oh, and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned to the ground this day in 1613.
(During a production of Herny VIII -which wife supplied the fire?)

Molly Pitcher aids American Patriots!
Or was it Mary Ludwig Hayes on this day in 1776
took her husband's place on the battlefield
as he was either killed or wounded in the Battle of Momouth.
The other soldiers admired her courage.

Also on this day, Esther Forbes won the Pulitzer Prize
in 1943, for her book: "Paul Revere and the World He
Lived In." (Still in print)

"Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is
disastous to confuse them."
~ Madeleine L'Engle

"The Ladies Mercury"
~published in 1693- the first women's magazine.

In 1833 Prudenc Cradall was arrested for conducting an academy for
black women at Canterbury Conn.

"Nothing will work unless you do it.

~ Maya Angelou

The first sci-fi soap opera-"Dark Shadows"- premiered on television in 1966.

~ We gotta have our soaps!

U.S. Supreme Court Rules!

that Virginia Military Institute must admit women.

"I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I
can be a woman in it."
~ Marilyn Monroe