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Before she was murdered, Alberta Jones was making history. In 1965, Alberta O. Jones became the first black female
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prosecutor in Louisville history. And that was only one of so many impressive things that she'd done. She helped
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register thousands of black voters during the Civil Rights Movement. She helped push anti-discrimination laws in
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Louisville. And she became one of the first black women to pass the Kentucky bar. Oh, and Muhammad Ali trusted her
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enough to negotiate his first professional boxing contract. Alberta wasn't just a lawyer. She was changing
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power structures, which is why what happened next could be so troubling. Because in the months before she died,
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Alberta told family members that she was being followed. Her car was even apparently being bumped
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into on purpose, and people were watching her. The more successful Alberta became, the more dangerous her
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life seemed to get. Could Alberta have been targeted?