In 1966, Yolanda listened to a speech her father gave when he was addressing a rally. She appeared in numerous films and played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries King. On December 9, 1990, she canceled a planned appearance in a play in Tucson, Arizona[75] and ignored a boycott going on at the time by civil rights groups and other activists for Arizona voters rejecting the proposal of Martin Luther King Jr. Day being celebrated there. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Yolanda Denise King, 51, the eldest daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. [118], Despite this, she was quoted in January 2003 of saying that she was "a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in 'The Dream'. "[128] January 2008's issue of Ebony, her relationship with Rev. [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. She held membership at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which her father helped found in 1957, and she was a notable advocate for non-violence. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect / CBS/AP. She was 12 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. died. Bernice King, Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III. King was an ardent activist for gay rights,[123][124] as was her mother; Coretta Scott protested many times over gay rights. [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. "[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. [25] Her memories of her father prompted her to state that he "believed we were all divine. 2007 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. Arrangements were to be announced later, the family said in a statement. In 1958, Dr. King narrowly escaped death when he was stabbed in a bookstore in Harlem. [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". NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates offers a personal note on Yolanda King. "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. "Thanks for having us.". She played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King" and appeared in "Ghosts of Mississippi" a drama based on the true story of a white supremacist accused of the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers (via NPR). Active human rights worker. "[53] At the time of her turmoil in college, King recalled having not known Malcolm X and "didn't understand daddy, so here I was trying to defend something I thought I knew about but really didn't. In 1979, Yolanda met Attallah Shabazz, the eldest daughter of Malcolm X,[60] after arrangements had been made by Ebony Magazine to take a photograph of the two women together. Yolanda King, who lived in California, was an actress, ran a production company and appeared in numerous films, including "Ghosts of Mississippi." She played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King." She has mostly been in the news. You can help our automatic cover photo selection by reporting an unsuitable photo. [15], On November 22, 1963, when U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, she learned of his death at school. [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. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. All four of MLK's children . He would be killed a scant three months later by an assassin's bullet. (After all, she was a theater major.) May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM She took classes taught by Manning Marable and Johnnella Butler, and became satisfied with her choice of a college. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. Many former classmates of both Grady High School and Smith College attended to remember her. When King was 16, she received attention in Jet in 1972, where she talked about what her father's famous name was doing for her life. "[92], King attended and spoke at the Human Rights Campaign Detroit Gala Dinner of 2000. King served as a spokesperson for her mother during the illness that would eventually lead to her death. She portrayed Rosa Parks, who sparked the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her bus seat in a miniseries, King (1978), and Betty Shabazz, the wife of Malcolm X, in Death of a Prophet (1981). [81] In October, King gave support for a Cabrini-Green family that wants to escape the violence, and a fundraiser for their cause. The family did not know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem, he said. [25], She kicked off Martin Luther King Jr. Day by starting a week-long celebration on January 12, 1987, and talked to students about opportunities that they had at that point which their parents and grandparents did not have. Her death comes little more than a year after the death of her mother, Coretta Scott King. She allowed me to give myself permission to be me." Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. In a twenty-four-minute-long speech, she brought up the presidential election of that year, and also quoted the words of Bobby Kennedy by recalling his line which he took from George Bernard Shaw, that of "Some men see things as they are and say why? [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. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but think it might have been a heart problem. She stated that her father had a "magnificent dream", but admitted that "it still is only a dream. . Ms. Kings consistent goal was to infect her work, including her films, with her familys deeper purposes. Yolanda, from your one and only, I thank you for being a sister and for being a friend." King recalled that her mother had been the main parent and dominant figure in their home, while her father was often away. King joined her mother and siblings in marches and was lauded by such figures as Harry Belafonte, who established a trust fund for her and her siblings. [78] She joined her mother in placing a wreath around her father's crypt. Lawmakers and activists including Andrea Waters King , Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Rev. "[117], To the time of her death, King continued to deny that her father's dreams and ideals would be fulfilled during her lifetime. U.S. Yolanda King Dead At Age 51 May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM / CBS/AP The King Center in Atlanta set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King says his oldest. She mentioned the possibility that the event could have been a calling for Americans to put their loyalty towards "their race, tribe and nation", as her father once said. King appeared on News & Notes on January 15, 2007 to discuss her. [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". 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. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her father's. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. "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. We cannot be satisfied with a few black faces in high places when millions of our people have been locked out." This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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. [28] Yolanda died due to a chronic heart condition in 2007. Bernice King at Yolanda King Memorial May 24, 2007 DryerBuzz An Original Digital 2.67K subscribers 309K views 15 years ago When Bernice brings the word, let's just say the word is delivered.. [63] A few months after King and Shabazz met, the pair decided to collaborate on a theatrical work, resulting in Stepping into Tomorrow. King made it clear that while she had not been "endeared" to the institution, she was still "grateful" for her experience. Suzan Johnson Cook was highlighted in an article written by the minister, as she dubbed her deceased longtime friend a "queen whose name was King". or redistributed. The event marked 57 years since King Jr delivered. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { The head of the school was Walt Roberts, father of the actors Eric and Julia Roberts. Assassination of John F. Kennedy and Nobel Peace Prize: 19631964, Enrollment at Spring Street Elementary School and last years with father: 19651968, Immediate life after Smith College: 19761978, King holiday, arrests, and return to Smith College: 19801989, Arizona boycott and James Earl Ray retrial: 19901999, Mother's death, sibling dispute and final months: 20062007. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. On April 8, 1988, King and Shabazz were honored by Los Angeles County supervisors for their "unifying" performance and message on stage at the Los Angeles Theater Center the previous night. Her deepest memories were the love of her father, who taught her to swim and playfully pummeled her but never spanked her. [86], On February 1, 1994, King attempted to speak before a diverse class of students at North Central College. [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. [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. [24] In February 1982, King was a speaker during the centennial of Anne Spencer's birth. Anyone can read what you share. [13][14] She was among 187 people arrested during a demonstration by lesbian and gay rights activists. The civil rights leader and wife Coretta Scott King were parents to four kids: sons Martin Luther King III, 65, and Dexter, 61, and daughters Yolanda and Bernice, 59. "[72] She was also subject to some harassment by her classmates, describing it as the "era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings." While in high school, she gained lifelong friends. [116], Bernice King said it was "very difficult standing here blessed as her one and only sister. King received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, a master's degree in theater from New York University,[59] and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marywood University. Legal Statement. . She was born just two weeks before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus there, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott spearheaded by her father. A young cousin who lived in Atlanta and had worked on the Carter campaign had stopped by during inauguration week. 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. I have chosen to continue to promote 'we're one, the oneness of us, and shine the spotlight,' as my father did. King was born in the midst of the turbulent civil rights movement and was only an infant when the King home was bombed in 1956. ATLANTA Yolanda King, the Rev. [48] Despite statements such as these, King did not become aware of the public discomfort with her role until years later, citing her mother's involvement in her knowledge of the criticism.[49]. None of them have children, and there will be no third generation of Kings to carry on Martin Luther King's legacy. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. "[94] Following the September 11 attacks, King spoke in North Chicago in 2002 and related that her father's wisdom during the crisis would have been of great aid to her. King and her brother Martin III bragged about their selflessness at school. [4] Despite this, the front porch was damaged and glass broke in the home. [107], That year, she and her brother Dexter came to oppose their other brother and sister, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, on the matter of selling the King Center. "[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. The event was planned by survivors of the . [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. [129] On May 25, 2008, her brother Martin Luther III and his wife, Arndrea, became the parents of a baby girl and named her Yolanda Renee King, after King herself. It was the first and only institution where King was not harassed or mistreated because of who her father was. Memorialize Yolanda's life with photos and stories about her and the King family history and genealogy. From left: Dexter King, the Rev. [63][64] The theater company was based in New York City and Los Angeles and focused on addressing the issues that their fathers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, spoke of in their lifetimes. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. [24] On January 7, 1986, Yolanda, her brother Martin Luther King III and her sister Bernice were arrested for "disorderly conduct" by officers responding to a call from a Winn Dixie market, of which had an ongoing protest against it since September of the previous year. 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. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. He had come up for the festivities, and he had two friends with him. In January 2004, King referred to her father as a king, but not as one who "sat on a throne, but one who sat in a dark Birmingham jail. 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). Yolanda King was the most visible and outspoken among the Kings' four children during activities honoring this year's Martin Luther King Day in January, the first since Coretta Scott King's death. Jesse Jackson stated that King "lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle. 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. We must cease our premature celebration [about civil rights already achieved] and get back to the struggle. [22] She ranked in the top 10 percent of her class. One of her father's close aides in the civil rights movement, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her fathers message of racial equality and nonviolence with her own calling as an actor and a motivational speaker, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 51. The pair performed in around 50 cities a year and did lectures together, typically in school settings. She founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. [20] Soon thereafter, they would be joined by their younger brother Dexter. Bernice King, Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III. In 1993, she debunked the thought that her father's "dream" had been anything but a dream, and was quoted as saying "It's easier to build monuments than to make a better world. We had cups of tea because it was so frigid that night, and then they were gone. 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. Bernice A. [9] Decision-making towards what school she would attend in first grade was done primarily by her mother, since her father expressed disinterest to her early in the decision-making. [46] Her grandfather Martin Luther King Sr. initially was not going to go to her performance due to opposition by locals, but changed his mind afterward. 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. Ms. King graduated from Smith College and earned a master of fine arts degree from New York University. Yolanda King wrote and produced plays; gave speeches to groups that included elementary schoolchildren and Fortune 500 corporations; and acted in commercial movies. Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. 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Neither she nor her mother was injured when the device exploded on the front porch. News & Notes remembers Yolanda King, eldest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She passed away Tuesday at the age of 51. Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, and Mrs. King died last year. She was 51.. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, collapsed and died after making a speech . She did not understand, and asked her mother Coretta why she was not able to go. Funeral arrangements would be announced later, the family said in a statement. She was closest to my age, so while the adults worried aloud about what King's assassination would mean for the future of the civil rights movement, I wondered about the future of Yolanda and her siblings. [32] After the funeral, she was visited by classmates from Spring Street Middle School with flowers and cards. [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 1974, an apparent madman fired a gun in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and killed her grandmother Alberta Williams King. 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. His youngest two children, Esther and Vernon, were vacationing with King and her family in Jamaica when they heard of his death. She also appeared in Ghosts of Mississippi and founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. [110], She preached in January 2007 to an audience in Ebenezer Baptist Church urging them to be an oasis for peace and love, as well as to use her father's holiday as starting ground for their own interpretations of prejudice. Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images [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". Yolanda King was born on November 17, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. I remember thinking she was sparkly a good, throaty laugh, good sense of humor, the ability to dramatically capture the room's attention. <img src="http://members.cox.net/jnashatty/P1020216.jpg" height=450 width=600> FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2006, file photo, from left, the children of the Rev. Pennsylvania police seized gloves, flashlight from home of Idaho murders suspect [130] During a 2009 reunion at her alma mater Smith College, a walk was done in her memory by fellow alumnae.[131]. "She was the first daughter of the civil rights movement and never shamed her parents or her co-activists.". But the circumstances surrounding her death make people draw conclusions about her cause of death. 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. I watched as the four King children grew into adulthood, then middle age, all single. Alongside the physician that took care of her mother, Dr. Maggie Mermin and her sister, Yolanda told the press that her mother was making progress on a daily basis and was expected to make a full recovery. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story" Yolanda Denise King, who was born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., lived virtually her entire life in the maelstrom of the civil rights revolution that her father and mother, Coretta Scott King, helped lead. It seems we've stood still and in many ways gone backward since Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. Yolanda has mostly been portrayed in films that revolve around her parents. After she suggested that he would most likely give it all away, King laughed with her mother. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism. 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. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. I was a high-school junior when Martin Luther King was assassinated. Yolanda and Martin III sat nearby, numb with sadness. Raphael Warnock stated; "She dealt with the difficulty of personal pain and public responsibility and yet she emerged from it all victorious. display: block; She also urged the audience at Ebenezer to be a force for peace and love, and to use the King holiday each year in January to ask tough questions about their own beliefs on prejudice. Speaking last January in Atlanta at Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father preached for many years Yolanda exhorted those observing the national holiday that bears his name to remember that America has not yet achieved peace and racial equality. [31], King was visited by Mrs. Kennedy before her father's funeral. Bernice King. The only reason why Black History Month was created and still exists is because America is still struggling and trying to come to grips, come to terms with the diversity of its people. 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