Soon after, she heard of the event when a news bulletin popped up while she was washing dishes. Her death comes little more than a year after the death of her mother, Coretta Scott King. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of the Rev. ATLANTA Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect 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. Instead, the two quickly found common ground in their activism and in their positive outlook towards the future of African-Americans. 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"[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. Sometime after Martin Luther King's assassination, King told her mother "Mom, I'm not going to cry because my dad is not dead. Mrs. King said the children attended because they wanted to. Stepping into Tomorrow led to the formation of Nucleus in the 1980s, a theater company which King and Shabazz founded. 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). On January 15, 1997, she spoke at Florida Memorial College and expressed what she believed her father would feel if "he knew that people were taking a day off in his memory to do nothing". 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. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. During the course of her lifetime, King's name was mispronounced to the point that it bothered her. 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. 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. The cause of death was believed to be heart disease. However, her father reassured her as she began to cry that she was "just as good" as anyone who went to Funtown, and that, one day in the "not too distant future", she was going to be able to go to "any town" along with "all of God's children". [50] November 17, 1955 - May 15, 2007 Santa Monica, California | Age 51 Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., dies . Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. She was a reserved and quiet person who loved acting. [76] King and Shabazz had planned the play months before the voters of the state rejecting the holiday, and King prepared a statement which solidified her reasons for supporting the boycott. She made lifelong friends while in the institution that would collectively be called the "Grady Girls". Active human rights worker. [90] King joined the rest of her family in February 1997, in advocating a retrial for James Earl Ray, the man convicted of her father's murder, having realized that "without our direct involvement, the truth will never come out. "[24] King appeared in the film Selma, Lord, Selma, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches as Miss Bright. She called him my first buddy, saying, I was tremendously loved.. She was one of the first black children at a previously segregated elementary school in Atlanta, where she endured racial epithets. 2007 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. [51], After graduating from high school, she went to Smith College. "[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. Her educational accomplishments continued when she earned a Master of Fine Arts from New York University in 1979 (via Stanford). She occasionally experienced threats to her life, designed to intimidate her parents, and was bullied at school. She was 12 when her father was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. 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. [82], 25 years after her father's assassination, she went to his gravesite. We cannot be satisfied with a few black faces in high places when millions of our people have been locked out." [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 Mrs. King was alive, the standards to which she would hold any potential life partner of any of her children would be so high as to be almost unmeetable," he speculates. "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. I thought of that evening often over the years, the unexpected appearance of the living children of a beloved icon. "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. Born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. [114] She was 51. Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images I am in direct contact with her spirit, and that has given me so much peace and so much strength.". "She lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle," said the Rev. After her hour-long presentation, she joined her sister and her aunt, Christine King Farris, in signing books. "[117], To the time of her death, King continued to deny that her father's dreams and ideals would be fulfilled during her lifetime. Yolanda King: 'Open My Eyes, Open My Soul'. [25] Her memories of her father prompted her to state that he "believed we were all divine. "[54] On April 4, 1975, King joined her family in placing azaleas over her father's crypt, marking the seventh anniversary of his assassination.[55]. She became a secondary caregiver to her younger siblings. Death 15 May 2007 (aged 51) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA. . Yolanda died due to a chronic heart condition in 2007. ", The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. 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. Her mother, Coretta Scott King, died last year. 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". 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. Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. 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. She was the godmother of acclaimed actress RaVen Larrymore Kelly. She took classes taught by Manning Marable and Johnnella Butler, and became satisfied with her choice of a college. She was a young girl during his famous stay in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. 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. She stated that her father had a "magnificent dream", but admitted that "it still is only a dream. The children referred to her father as an "Uncle Tom" and she was scared that he would go down in history as such. "[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. [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. In her teenage years, she became an effective leader of her high school class and was covered by the magazines Jet and Ebony. [29] King complimented her mother as a "brave and strong lady," leading to a hug between them. In 1999, she acted in Selma, Lord, Selma, about the civil rights march, and in 1996 appeared in Ghosts of Mississippi, about efforts to track down the killer of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader. Yolanda died in May. Yolanda King founded and led Higher Ground Productions, billed as a "gateway for inner peace, unity and global transformation." 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. 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. The statement was made while she was in the presence of 800 people who gathered to honor her father at the Everett Theatre. Yolanda Denise King nicknamed Yoki by the family was born Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., where her father was then preaching. 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. She was 51.. When asked about how she was faring following her mother's death, Yolanda responded: "I connected with her spirit so strongly. She founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. 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. Being a busy woman, her brother merely treated it as one of her hectic schedules. [130] During a 2009 reunion at her alma mater Smith College, a walk was done in her memory by fellow alumnae.[131]. "I'm Yoki," Yolanda King said, smiling. Her paternal grandfather, the Rev. Coretta had a blood clot move from her heart and lodge in an artery in her brain. "[109] She found her mother's personal papers in her home. On her company's Web site, King described her mission as encouraging 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.". She and her mother, at the time of the bomb's detonation, were in the rear section of their home. Despite this, King managed to keep up her grades and became involved in high school politics, serving as class president for two years. 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. 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. She returned to Smith College on January 26, 1989. But the circumstances surrounding her death make people draw conclusions about her cause of death. She appeared in numerous films and played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries King. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. ", The Rev. Funeral arrangements would be announced later, the family said in a statement. Martin Luther King Jr., died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 51. She was 51. [52] With her death, the only remaining members of King's father's immediate family were her grandfather Martin Luther King, Sr. and aunt Christine King Ferris. None of them have children, and there will be no third generation of Kings to carry on Martin Luther King's legacy. Death . 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. Yolanda at that same ceremony used her craft as an actress to deliver a tribute to her parents, performing a series of skits telling stories including a girl's first ride on a desegregated bus and a college student's recollection of the 1963 desegregation of Birmingham, Ala. 225 Yolanda King, the oldest child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., died on May 15, 2007, in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 51. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. [85] In October, she uttered her belief that her father's dream of integration was not fully understood. "Daughters of M.L. The movement was in her DNA. [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. "[87] In July 1994, after seeing some photographs of her father prior to his death, Yolanda lamented that "this [had] brought back a lot of memories. Legal Statement. Andrea Waters King, Yolanda Renee King, and Martin Luther King III, attend the "March On for Washington and Voting Rights" on August 28, 2021 in. Leading up to her death, she was still active in the public eye. [32] After the funeral, she was visited by classmates from Spring Street Middle School with flowers and cards. Yolanda and Martin III sat nearby, numb with sadness. 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). The pair performed in around 50 cities a year and did lectures together, typically in school settings. Her mother tried to debunk this, insisting that they would still get it. [13][14] I dream things that never were and say why not?". At the time of the honor, King said that their production company had been approached by organizations seeking to arrange special staging of the play for gang members before May 1, when the show's run would end. [50] King would ultimately attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts after graduating from high school. The next-youngest, Dexter, leaned silently against his mother's side. He added she was "thoroughly committed to the movement and found her own means of expressing that commitment through drama. After having been a public speaker for over twenty years, Yolanda recalled her talents having "happened very naturally growing up in a house like mine". [108] After Coretta died on January 30, 2006, Yolanda, like her siblings, attended her funeral. With Yolanda King, she also founded a group named Nucleus, Inc. in 1977. Joseph Lowery, said Wednesday he was stunned and saddened by the news of King's death. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [28] She asked her mother at this time, if she should hate the man who killed her father. 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. He may be dead physically, and one day I am going to see him again".[43]. [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. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. 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. In 1960, they moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she was immersed in social upheaval. He told her that there were many whites who were not racist and wanted her to go but there were many who were and did not want her to go. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { She then toured the country with the Christian Theater Artist Company, which she helped found. When asked by a young boy what she remembered most about her father, she admitted that her father was not able to spend much time with her and the rest of her family. [83] During July 1993, she agreed to speak at the Coral Springs City Centre for airfare and a fee in January 1994. [78] She joined her mother in placing a wreath around her father's crypt. Legal Statement. She ran out of the room, screamed "I don't want to hear it,"[24] and prayed that he would not die. [65] In 1984, she was arrested in the view of her mother for having protested in front of the South African Embassy, in support of anti-apartheid views. He would be killed a scant three months later by an assassin's bullet. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of the Rev. There, in my living room, shaking off snow and laughing, were the kids in the picture two of them, anyway. When asked by The Associated Press at that event how she was dealing with the loss of her mother, she responded: "I connected with her spirit so strongly. 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. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. In high school, she was president of her sophomore and junior classes and vice president of her senior class. King and Kelly starred in three films together, HBO's "America's Dream" starring Danny Glover and Wesley Snipes, award-winning period film "Odessa," that deals with racial unrest in which King gives a stellar performance as a nanny who lost her son to racial violence, and in Rob Reiner's film "Ghosts of Mississippi" about the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers starring Whoopi Goldberg and Alec Baldwin, King and Kelly played the adult and child versions of Reena Evers. 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. Al Sharpton , U.S.. [62] The two were young adults at the time and had a mutual friend who noticed they were both studying theater in New York and arranged for them to meet. Yolanda King's bio. Her decision in 1971 to play a prostitute in a school production of Bill Manhoffs Owl and the Pussycat, which involved kissing a white man, scandalized the white and black communities. [8] The Kings would have another daughter, almost eight years later, named Bernice (born 1963). "Thanks for having us.". ATLANTA (AP) On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its patriarch when the Rev. Born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., Yolanda Denise King was just an infant when her home was bombed amid the turbulent civil rights era. [86], On February 1, 1994, King attempted to speak before a diverse class of students at North Central College. Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott King, the Rev. Bernice A. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. 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