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The Alberta Jones Project: Murder of a Trailblazer
These sources chronicle the remarkable life and tragic assassination of Alberta Jones, a pioneering Black attorney and civil rights activist in Louisville, Kentucky. As the first Black female prosecutor in her county and an early mentor to Muhammad Ali, Jones utilized her legal expertise to register thousands of voters and challenge systemic racial barriers. The text details her brutal 1965 murder, which occurred just before the signing of the Voting Rights Act and remains a haunting unsolved cold case. Readers are presented with various theories regarding her death, ranging from political…
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