King also voiced her dislike of the assumption that she would behave just like her mother and father, and the difficulty of being perceived as not being someone others could talk to. I dream things that never were and say why not?". Search instead in Creative? [93] During a presentation in May 2000, King was asked if the human race would ever become "color blind". "We must keep reaching across the table and, in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, feed each other," King said. [29] King complimented her mother as a "brave and strong lady," leading to a hug between them. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. [7] King's father eventually was satisfied with the nickname "Yoki", and wished that if they had a second daughter, they would name her something simpler. Despite this, Shabazz still appeared in the state and performed in the play. 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In the early hours of May 19, 2007, King's body was brought to Atlanta, Georgia by private plane belonging to Bishop Eddie Long. King was also an author and advocate for peace and nonviolence, and held memberships in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which her father co-founded in 1957 and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I am in direct contact with her spirit, and that has given me so much peace and so much strength." An important early memory was that she wanted to go to Funtown, a local amusement park, with the rest of her class, but was barred from doing so due to her race. Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. Yolanda Denise King nicknamed Yoki by the family was born Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., where her father was then preaching. The loss has not gotten easier in 50 years, but his three surviving children each bear it on their own terms. Yolanda King was born on November 17, 1955 and died on May 15, 2007. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. "Thanks for having us.". Sometime after Martin Luther King's assassination, King told her mother "Mom, I'm not going to cry because my dad is not dead. She stated, "It is entirely appropriate that you would choose to focus on multiculturalism as the opening activity of Black History Month. Her mother started to realize that Yolanda had become more aware of the possibility that her father could be killed as well. Higher Ground Productions: www.yolanda-king.com, Yolanda King, daughter of MLK Jr., dies at 51. or redistributed. "She lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle," said the Rev. Image Credit Birthday: November 17, 1955 ( Scorpio) Born In: Montgomery, Alabama, United States 26 15 Civil Rights Activists #23 Human Rights Activists #11 Voice Actresses #17 Quick Facts Also Known As: Yolanda Denise King Died At Age: 51 Family: father: Martin Luther King Jr. Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 May 15, 2007) was an African-American activist, actress and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King who pursued artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. King called her father's name and having to live up to it a "challenge" and recalled a friend when she first met a friend of hers, who believed she could not say anything to King but after beginning to know her, realized that she was "no worse than my other friends" and she "could say anything" to her. Yolanda King, shown here in a 2005 photograph, sought to encourage "personal growth and positive social change." I am in direct contact with her spirit, and that has given me so much peace and so much strength. Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz Gamilah was born in 1964, the year before her dad's death. [30] Four days later, she and her family accompanied their mother to Memphis City Hall on her own terms, as she and her brothers had wanted to come. Her family has speculated that her death was caused by a heart condition. She was also on the student council. Summary . A flag at The King Center, which King's mother founded in 1968 and where she was a board member, was lowered to half-staff on Wednesday. He had come up for the festivities, and he had two friends with him. Her accomplishments extended further to the publishing industry, where she authored several books, including "Open my Eyes, Open my Soul," which made it to print in 2003 (via Stanford). [81] In October, King gave support for a Cabrini-Green family that wants to escape the violence, and a fundraiser for their cause. Maybe when I'm older I won't be able to stand Yoki, but Yolanda sounds so formal!" It was the first and only institution where King was not harassed or mistreated because of who her father was. Yolanda and Martin III sat nearby, numb with sadness. Yolanda King learned about racial discrimination at 3 or 4 when she was barred from an amusement park. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica,. On her company's Web site, she described her mission as encouraging personal growth and positive social change. "She was a warm and gentle person and was thoroughly committed to the movement and found her own means of expressing that commitment through drama. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. All rights reserved. Born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era. She just moved upstairs." It seems we've stood still and in many ways gone backward since Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. Father's death: 1968 Teenage years and high school: 1968-1972 Early adulthood College: 1972-1976 . Coretta had a blood clot move from her heart and lodge in an artery in her brain. The death comes just over a year after the death of her mother, Coretta Scott King a civil rights leader in her own right at the age of 78, of complications from ovarian cancer, and after a battle with the effects from a stroke. Mrs. King said the children attended because they wanted to. [44] The practice of going to her father's grave on the anniversary of either his birth or assassination became an annual ritual for the King family to mourn his death. Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott King, the Rev. When asked then by The Associated Press how she was dealing with the loss of her mother, King responded: "I connected with her spirit so strongly. King spoke from the cathedral's Canterbury Pulpit, the same pulpit Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from on his last Sunday sermon before his death. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. When she returned home, she rushed to confront her mother about his death and even ignored her grandfather, Martin Luther King, Sr., to tell her mother what she had heard and that they would not get their "freedom now." Yolanda died due to a chronic heart condition in 2007. [22] She ranked in the top 10 percent of her class. Being the oldest, she had to watch her three younger siblings; Martin Luther King III, Dexter King and Bernice King and referred to the three as independent when she watched them whenever their mother went out of town. She occasionally experienced threats to her life, designed to intimidate her parents, and was bullied at school. Yolanda was born at St. Jude's Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama to Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr[2]., she was only two weeks old when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus. Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, and Mrs. King died last year. When asked about how she was faring following her mother's death, Yolanda responded: "I connected with her spirit so strongly. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. There was such a need, like they were looking for a miracle. Please enter valid email address to continue. ATLANTA (AP) On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its patriarch when the Rev. A flag at The King Center, which King's mother founded in 1968 and where she was a board member, was lowered to half-staff on Wednesday. "We must keep reaching across the table and, in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, feed each other," she said. [19], King, and her brother "Marty", were enrolled in the fall semester of 1965 at Spring Street Elementary School, in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. I remember listening to the news, in disbelief, in the twilight hours of April 4, 1968. hide caption. ATLANTA - Yolanda King, the Rev. Her teenage years were filled with more tragedies, specifically the sudden death of her uncle Alfred Daniel Williams King and the murder of her grandmother, Alberta Williams King. "[126] Like her parents and siblings, King did not publicly affiliate with a political party. "[26] Coretta King wrote in her memoirs, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., that "Martin always said that Yoki came at a time in his life when he needed something to take his mind off the tremendous pressures that bore down upon him. In the Fall of 1968, King attended Henry Grady Highschool, in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, she was president of her sophomore and junior class, and vice president of her senior class. Being a busy woman, her brother merely treated it as one of her hectic schedules. Her career as an actor and speaker combined her father's. [83] During July 1993, she agreed to speak at the Coral Springs City Centre for airfare and a fee in January 1994. Yolanda has mostly been portrayed in films that revolve around her parents. At her father's former Atlanta church, Ebenezer Baptist, she performed a series of one-actor skits on King Day this year that told stories including a girl's first ride on a desegregated bus and a college student's recollection of the 1963 desegregation of Birmingham, Ala. She also urged the audience at Ebenezer to be a force for peace and love, and to use the King holiday each year to ask tough questions about their own beliefs on prejudice. [47] In response to her role in the play and her own response to the role, a man wrote to Jet predicting that she would marry a white person before she was eighteen. While in high school, she gained lifelong friends. [40] At that time, King still did not know what she wanted to do with her life, but acknowledged that many wanted her to be a preacher. Like Jackie Kennedy before her, Coretta Scott King sat still and composed as all around her wept. I was a high-school junior when Martin Luther King was assassinated. In an interview with The Baltimore Sun in 1998, Ms. King said acting had liberated her, not least the parts unrelated to her family history. "[27], On the evening of April 4, 1968, when she was 12, Yolanda returned with her mother from Easter-dress shopping when Jesse Jackson called the family and reported that her father had been shot. [12] After having not seen her father for five weeks while he was in jail, she finally was able to meet with him alongside both of her brothers for less than half an hour. It's often hard for young people to understand the fear and terror so many people felt and how bold they were to get involved in the marches. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Martin Luther King Sr., refused to attend, but her mother supported her. Davis said Houston heart association officials have received no specific information on the cause of King's death but added that King had a family history of heart disease and stroke. [84] During her speech, she mentioned that the fact that the poverty line in America among children had nearly tripled and urged people to "reach out" and "do what you can". [13][14] Sign In . Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. [125] She stated at the Chicago's Out and Equal Workplace Summit in 2006 "If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, you do not have the same rights as other Americans, you cannot marry, you still face discrimination in the workplace, and in our armed forces. "She was the first daughter of the civil rights movement and never shamed her parents or her co-activists.". "[69] King started Black History Month of 1986 by giving a speech in Santa Ana, which called for the study of African-American history to not be "relegated to the shortest and coldest month of the year. [66], She showed dissatisfaction with her "generation" on January 20, 1985, and referred to them as being "laid-back and unconcerned", and "forgetting the sacrifices that allowed them to get away with being so laid-back". [18] In 1964, upon learning her father would receive the Nobel Peace Prize, she asked her mother what her father was going to do with the money he was receiving in addition to the award. Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies By Douglas Martin May 17, 2007 Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. Sharpton said Yolanda King was a "torch bearer for her parents and a committed activist in her own right. She was involved in a sibling feud that pitted her and her brother Dexter against their brother Martin Luther King III and sister Bernice King for the sale of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. [36], When asked about what pressures emerged from being a daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., King stated that "as soon as people heard me speak, they would compare me to my father My siblings had the same kind of pressure. [119] She made it clear that month that she was not trying to fill her father's footsteps, noting jokingly that "They're too big" and that she would "fall and break [her] neck". The children of Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King Yolanda Denise, Martin Luther III, Dexter Scott, and Bernice Albertine have each in their own way worked to carry on their parents' work fighting for racial equality and social justice. Besides her brother Dexter Scott King, Yolanda King is survived by another brother, Martin Luther King III, and her sister, the Rev. King aroused controversy in high school for her role in a play. When her father was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the 12-year-old King showed her composure during the public funeral and mourning events. While her siblings were trying to find out what it meant, Yolanda already knew. [121] She disliked cliches used to define her father and expressed this to Attallah Shabazz, and recalled having seen a play where her father was a "wimp" and carried The Bible with him everywhere.[122]. In high school, she was president of her sophomore and junior classes and vice president of her senior class. Yolanda King: 'We will fulfil my grandfather's dream' The granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr speaks at the 2020 March on Washington. [89], In the fall of 1995, at age 39, she joined Ilyasah Shabazz and Reena Evers in saluting their mothers as they chaired an attempt at registering one million African-American women to vote in the presidential election of 1996. Her mother told her not to, since her father would not want that. [42] Of the King children, Yolanda was the only one to attend Grady High School, as her siblings would go to different high schools following her graduation. When the Associated Press asked how she was dealing with her mother's death, she said(via NPR), "I connected with her spirit so strongly. In a statement, Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia and a veteran of the civil rights movement, said that being Dr. Kings daughter was to carry an extra burden. [24] She began speaking publicly at the age of ten and even filled in for her parents on occasion. Lawmakers and activists including Andrea Waters King , Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Rev. She was 51. [45], At 15 she was subject to controversy when she appeared in the play The Owl and the Pussycat with a white male lead. "[101] "I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it," Yolanda stated in 2005 on "Western Skies", a public radio show based in Colorado. Heart Attack caused Yolanda King's death in 2007. An alumna of Smith College after graduating in 1976, she was the subject of an essay among the "remarkable women" during a celebration during the college's one hundred and twenty-fifth year[56] and she was a member of the board of directors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc. (the official national memorial to her father) and was founding Director of the King Center's Cultural Affairs Program. She founded a dramatic group with Atallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, the slain civil rights leader, and started a theatrical production company, Higher Ground Productions, dedicated to what she called personal empowerment. King recalled that her mother had been the main parent and dominant figure in their home, while her father was often away. She proceeded to read his books, and started to believe that her father had been correct all along. Funeral arrangements would be announced later, the family said in a statement. Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died in California, family friends said on Wednesday. We had cups of tea because it was so frigid that night, and then they were gone. She was 51. She also found "great irony" in President Ronald Reagan having signed a bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday. You can help our automatic cover photo selection by reporting an unsuitable photo. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III and Yolanda King participate in a musical tribute to their mother at the new Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. That decade saw King's acting career take off as she appeared in ten separate projects, including Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Our Friend, Martin (1999) and Selma, Lord, Selma (1999). Only a year earlier, Coretta Scott King, wife of MLK and mother to Yolanda, died from complications of ovarian cancer at the age of 78. Yolanda was an advocate for racial and social justice, workers' rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and general nonviolence. "[72] [111] She spoke on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2007 to attendees at the Ebenezer Baptist Church and stated: "We must keep reaching across the table and, in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, feed each other,". She was credited with having her father's sense of humor.[1]. Her father also addressed the issue himself. November 17, 1955 - May 15, 2007 Santa Monica, California | Age 51 Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., dies . Former Mayor Andrew Young, a lieutenant of her father's who has remained close to the family, said Yolanda King had just spoken at an event for the American Heart Association. She returned to Smith College on January 26, 1989. Legal Statement. She stated in 2000 to USA Today, that her acting "allowed me to find an expression and outlet for the pain and anger I felt about losing my father,". She was a reserved and quiet person who loved acting. She recalled having met a friend that was scared of being acquainted with her, because of her father's identity and expressed her thoughts in the colleges she wished to attend. 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KING", "Black History Parade, King Speech Draw Thousands", "Daughters of King, Malcolm X Also Have a Message", "Son Dexter To Take Reign of The King Center in Atlanta", "2 Black Leaders' Daughters May Ignore Arizona Boycott", "Yolanda King Cancels Appearance in Arizona", "U.S. On July 21, 1969, King's uncle and father's brother Alfred Daniel Williams King was found dead in the swimming pool of his home. [3] Yolanda and her mother were not harmed. "[100] While in Dallas in March 2004, King related; "It's only in the past half-dozen years or so that I have felt comfortable in my own skin. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Garland to face Congress amid ongoing special counsel investigations, FBI chief says agency feels pandemic likely started with Chinese lab leak. With Elodia Tate, she edited a motivational book emphasizing the importance of diversity. Before her death, she led a production company called Higher Ground Productions an organization whose mission is to provide a "gateway for inner peace, unity, and global transformation," as per NPR. King's mother, Coretta Scott King, suffered a stroke before her death from cancer in 2006. Market data provided by Factset. When he did, she would play and swim with him. She was a young girl during his famous stay in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. He added she was "thoroughly committed to the movement and found her own means of expressing that commitment through drama. [79] King stressed in 1992 that love would help people make their mark on the world. [20] Soon thereafter, they would be joined by their younger brother Dexter. And I was happy to see that they bore no resemblance to the sad-eyed youngsters I'd seen on television during their father's services. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid She founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. Information about the death of Yolanda King; Cause of death: Heart Attack: Age of death: 51 years: Profession: Civil Rights Leader: Birthday: November 17, 1955: Death date: March 15, 2007: Place of death: N/A: Place of burial: N/A: Quotes. At her father's Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, she performed a series of solo skits that told stories including a girl's first ride on a desegregated bus and a college student's recollection of the 1963 campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Ala. She also urged the audience to be a force for peace and love, and to use the King holiday each year to ask tough questions about their own beliefs about prejudice. The next year, Ms. Kings uncle A. D. King, her fathers sole brother, accidentally drowned. No blood children, maybe, but as Yolanda pointed out in an NPR interview a few years ago, when people feel empowered, they become part of the King legacy: "I think it takes that for people to be effective change agents and to be champions of peace in their own lives. Positive reception came to this interview, and Yolanda was even called the "leader of the 16-year-olds" for her "calmness, her concern," and "her vision". Her educational accomplishments continued when she earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in 1979 (via Stanford). [97] King and Elodia Tate co-edited the book Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity,[98][99] published by McGraw-Hill in 2003. She served on the Partnership Council of Habitat for Humanity, was the first national Ambassador for the American Stroke Association's "Power to End Stroke" Campaign, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a sponsor of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Human Rights Campaign, and held a lifetime membership in the NAACP. May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her father's. King was an ardent activist for gay rights,[123][124] as was her mother; Coretta Scott protested many times over gay rights. Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 - May 15, 2007) was an African-American activist, actress and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King who pursued artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. } She reflected "I had never read his works. She was also on the board of the King Center. 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