During her brief life, Alberta
Jones was at the forefront of change in Kentucky. In 1959, she was one of the
first African American women to pass the Kentucky Bar and in 1964 she became
the first woman prosecutor in Kentucky. Jones served as a prosecutor in the
Louisville Domestic Relations Court; her law office was located at 2018 W.
Broadway. Jones was Cassius Clay's also known as Muhammad Ali’s first attorney
who drafted his first contract with the city of Louisville. Jones was also a
civil rights activist: participating in the March on Washington and the marches
in Louisville, she also rented voting machines and in addition held classes to
teach African Americans how to vote for the candidate of their choice. She
established the Independent Voters Association and was an active member of the
Louisville Urban League and the NAACP. In her short time on earth, Jones
also established the James "Bulky" Welch Fund and held a fund-raiser,
raffling off a car to pay Welch's medical bills and purchase the prosthetic
arms to replace the ones young Welch had lost trying to retrieve his dog from
under a train.