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Izola Curry

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The Resume

    (June 14, 1916-March 7, 2015)
    Born in Adrian, Georgia
    Birth name was Izola Ware
    African-American woman
    Stabbed Martin Luther King, Jr., with a letter opener during a book signing in Harlem (September 20, 1958)
    Declared incompetent to stand trial and committed to a psychiatric hospital

Why she might be annoying:

    She left her husband after six months.
    She accused civil rights leaders of 'torturing' her and causing her to lose jobs and change her religion.
    The doctor who operated on King said, 'Had Dr. King sneezed or coughed the weapon would have penetrated the aorta.... He was just a sneeze away from death.'
    After she was charged with assault, she replied, 'I'm charging him [King] as well as he's charging me. I'm charging him with being mixed up with the Communists.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was the daughter of sharecroppers.
    King said he 'felt no ill will' toward her.
    King also said, 'I hope this experience proves to be socially constructive by demonstrating the urgent necessity for nonviolence to govern the affairs of men.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 29 Votes: 55.17% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 94.12% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 17 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 55 Votes: 58.18% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 68 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 21 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 84.21% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 82 Votes: 69.51% Annoying