Hello listeners, I'm your host Amara and this is Black Girl Gone, a true crime podcast.

On this episode of Black Girl Gone, we share the story of Alberta Jones from Louisville,

Kentucky, a civil rights pioneer and Louisville's first black female prosecutor who was brutally

murdered in August 1965. Her murder remains unsolved. This is Alberta's story.

You might not know who Alberta Jones is. She's not listed in our history books. There's

no fancy biopic starring in a list black actress. She's not included in our Black History Month

photo montages, but Alberta Jones was an icon and in the time we're being black and being a woman

left you with very few options, Alberta Jones overcame every obstacle that was in front of her.

Alberta Jones was born in 1930 in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the youngest of three children

and there's not a lot of information out there about her childhood, but what we do know is that

she attended Louisville Central High School, which was called Louisville Colored High School during

the year's Alberta attended and Alberta was academically gifted. She graduated high school with honors

and then she went on to attend Louisville Municipal College for Negroes. And in 1951,

when the Louisville Municipal College for Negroes merged with the University of Louisville as part

of efforts to desegregate all white colleges and universities, she was among the first black

students to attend the University of Louisville. Alberta then went on to graduate third in her class

in 1959. So it's important to remember the time period in which Alberta is living in. She was

living in a time where the civil rights movement was just beginning and black people were literally

fighting for their lives. Alberta knew that she needed to be a part of the solution, so she decided

that she was going to be a lawyer. Alberta originally attended the University of Louisville law school,

but after only a year, she transferred to Howard University. Now Howard University was the law

school that Thurgood Marshall had attended. So it was easy to see why a woman like Alberta would

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