Sign In . November 28, 2007 . "Yolanda was lovely. After the move, she founded Higher Ground Productions where she produced and starred in a myriad of films. Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. 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. ", "Yolanda never wavered from a commitment to nonviolent social change and justice for all," he said. Their play Stepping into Tomorrow was praised by supervisors as being "entertaining and enlightening." When asked what kind of world she would like to live in, King said she wished "people could love everybody". Yolanda King: 'We will fulfil my grandfather's dream' The granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr speaks at the 2020 March on Washington. display: none; She debunked complacency in having any role in progression of her father's dream. ATLANTA (AP) On April 4, 1968, a movement lost its patriarch when the Rev. She stated that her father had a "magnificent dream", but admitted that "it still is only a dream. However, she was still misjudged and mistrusted because of her skin color, based on perceptions founded solely upon her relationship with her father. 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. This, and other experiences, prompted a 7-year-old Yolanda to tell her friends (via Stanford), "Look, all I want is to just be treated like a normal child.". There, in my living room, shaking off snow and laughing, were the kids in the picture two of them, anyway. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Al Sharpton , U.S.. I could let the rough edges show., Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. Kings Daughter, Dies, https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17king.html. In the 1990s, she supported a retrial of James Earl Ray and publicly stated that she did not hate him. 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. Her death came a year after her mother died. All four of MLK's children . 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. During the course of her lifetime, King's name was mispronounced to the point that it bothered her. King was cremated,[115] in accordance with her wishes. I watched as the four King children grew into adulthood, then middle age, all single. }, First published on May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM. Her career as an actor and speaker combined her father's. 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. [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. She and her mother, at the time of the bomb's detonation, were in the rear section of their home. Yolanda Denise King was an African-American activist, actress and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. [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". "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. It seems we've stood still and in many ways gone backward since Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. Around an hour later,[113] King collapsed in the Santa Monica, California home of Philip Madison Jones, her brother Dexter King's best friend, and could not be revived. 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. Bernice King, Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III. 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. Historian David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer for his biography of King and who remains friends with many King intimates, says it's not so surprising that none of the King children married. Yolanda King, shown here in a 2005 photograph, sought to encourage "personal growth and positive social change." Her deepest memories were the love of her father, who taught her to swim and playfully pummeled her but never spanked her. NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates offers a personal note on Yolanda King. She then toured the country with the Christian Theater Artist Company, which she helped found. The play was directed towards teens and focused on the 10th year reunion of six high school friends. 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. 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. On her company's Web site, she described her mission as encouraging personal growth and positive social change. As she said during an interview, "I prefer Yoki. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism. "[72] Funeral arrangements would be announced later, the family said in a brief statement. He would be killed a scant three months later by an assassin's bullet. To Yolanda, it seemed as if adults naturally went to jail occasionally, because all those she knew seemed to do that. For a nation that prides itself on liberty, justice and equality for all, this is totally unacceptable. ", As an actress, she appeared in numerous films, including "Ghosts of Mississippi," and even played civil rights heroine Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King.". [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. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. She was also on the board of the King Center. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. 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. Her mother started to realize that Yolanda had become more aware of the possibility that her father could be killed as well. In honor of her father, King promoted a show in Los Angeles entitled "Achieving the Dream" in 2001. [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". [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. Yolanda King is seen in a 2006 file photo. "[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. A young cousin who lived in Atlanta and had worked on the Carter campaign had stopped by during inauguration week. [51], After graduating from high school, she went to Smith College. Yolanda King was born on November 17, 1955 and died on May 15, 2007. [25] Her memories of her father prompted her to state that he "believed we were all divine. Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies By Douglas Martin May 17, 2007 Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. [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. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. The pair performed in around 50 cities a year and did lectures together, typically in school settings. From left: Dexter King, the Rev. The actual cause of her death was not determined. King; two brothers, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King; and an extended family. She allowed me to give myself permission to be me." [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 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. [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. Legal Statement. 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. One of her father's close aides in the civil rights movement, the Rev. [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. People Photos Purpose. Thank you for her voice. The flag at The King Center, where she was a board member, flew at half-staff on today. Being a busy woman, her brother merely treated it as one of her hectic schedules. Heart Attack caused Yolanda King's death in 2007. King recalled that her mother had been the main parent and dominant figure in their home, while her father was often away. From left: Dexter King, the Rev. Yolanda died in May. His youngest two children, Esther and Vernon, were vacationing with King and her family in Jamaica when they heard of his death. 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. [28] The next year, Ms. Kings uncle A. D. King, her fathers sole brother, accidentally drowned. The actor, speaker and producer was the founder and head of Higher Ground Productions, billed as a "gateway for inner peace, unity and global transformation." She did not understand, and asked her mother Coretta why she was not able to go. 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. Rest in peace Yoki! ATLANTA Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. She also found "great irony" in President Ronald Reagan having signed a bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday. "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. Her paternal grandfather, the Rev. ATLANTA Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. Yolanda King founded and led Higher Ground Productions, billed as a "gateway for inner peace, unity and global transformation." Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism. Sharpton said Yolanda King was a "torch bearer for her parents and a committed activist in her own right. [83] During July 1993, she agreed to speak at the Coral Springs City Centre for airfare and a fee in January 1994. [36] She did admit that, had he lived or he been listened to more, "we would be in a far better place. I thought of that evening often over the years, the unexpected appearance of the living children of a beloved icon. Raphael Warnock stated; "She dealt with the difficulty of personal pain and public responsibility and yet she emerged from it all victorious. / CBS/AP. "Thanks for having us.". "We must keep reaching across the table and, in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, feed each other," said Yolanda, urging those who honor the Kings' work to question their own beliefs on prejudice and be a personal force for peace and love. 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. She was credited with having her father's sense of humor.[1]. King cried when she found out her father had been imprisoned. In 1978 she starred as Rosa Parks in the TV miniseries King (based on her father's life and released on DVD in 2005). Dexter King said of his sister, "She gave me permission. She 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. She became a secondary caregiver to her younger siblings. 683 Yolanda King Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 683 yolanda king stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. ", during a celebration that marked what would have been her father's sixty-fourth birthday. 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. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem. display: block; [102] During the fall of 2004 she played Mama in "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell University. The loss has not gotten easier in 50 years, but his three surviving children each bear it on their own terms. "[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. I am in direct contact with her spirit, and that has given me so much peace and so much strength. "[128] January 2008's issue of Ebony, her relationship with Rev. "I'm Yoki," Yolanda King said, smiling. Please enter valid email address to continue. But walking through the first part of the exhibit I felt that terror. "[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 her teenage years, King preferred to go by her nickname "Yoki." "[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. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of the Rev. Coretta King had established her own career as a civil rights activist, and after her husband's assassination in 1968, she founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (via Biography). [58] Despite some early opposition to acting that she received during her controversial play in high school, King still tried to get roles and actively tried performing. . Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott King, the Rev. There, she joined hands with her siblings and mother along with other civil rights activists, singing We Shall Overcome. King was the first national ambassador to the anti-stroke campaign and she helped spread the word about risk factors and warning signs of stroke, Davis said. [31], King was visited by Mrs. Kennedy before her father's funeral. The Tragic 2007 Death Of Martin Luther King's Eldest Child, Yolanda King. Yolanda Denise King, 51, the eldest daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. Many in attendance did not know her, but came out of respect for the King family's history of peace protests and social justice. Yolanda King's cause of death remains unknown, although her family including her sister Bernice King and two brothers, Martin and Dexter King believe a heart problem may have contributed to her death (via NPR). [68], She celebrated her father's holiday on January 16, 1986, and attended a breakfast in Chicago with Mayor Harold Washington. After her hour-long presentation, she joined her sister and her aunt, Christine King Farris, in signing books. Her father admitted that he had never adjusted to bringing up children under "inexplicable conditions". Yolanda Denise King nicknamed Yoki by the family was born Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., where her father was then preaching. [78] She joined her mother in placing a wreath around her father's crypt. [32] After the funeral, she was visited by classmates from Spring Street Middle School with flowers and cards. Garrow says his first inclination when he heard of Yolanda's death was: This is it. Jesse Jackson stated that King "lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle. She made lifelong friends while in the institution that would collectively be called the "Grady Girls". She went to drama school, where was active in student counsels, and in 1976, she graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and African American Studies. Blame the Federal Reserve. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her father's. 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. [63], When presenting herself in 1980 to the GSA staff members, she stated: "Jim Crow [segregation] is dead, but his sophisticated cousin James Crow, Esq., is very much alive. Her brother Martin III was born in 1957; brother Dexter in 1961; and sister Bernice in 1963. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story" She died on May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA. 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. She was one of the first black children at a previously segregated elementary school in Atlanta, where she endured racial epithets. 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. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. 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. [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. 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. [6] While her mother liked her name, her father had reservations about naming her "Yolanda", due to the possibility that the name would be mispronounced. ATLANTA - Yolanda King, the Rev. King and her brother Martin III bragged about their selflessness at school. We had cups of tea because it was so frigid that night, and then they were gone. 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. What is the birth name of. 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. Her death came less than a year and a half after her mother, Coretta Scott King, died in January 2006. She felt teenagers were confused and were using drugs as a method to escape their problems. Death 15 May 2007 (aged 51) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA. And that's how we can effectively commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.". Martin Luther King Jr. , Rev. May 24, 2007 #1 A friend of mines sent me these photos, so I cannot verify the authenticity.I think she looks beautiful. Anyone can read what you share. [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. [13][14] . 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. She was among 187 people arrested during a demonstration by lesbian and gay rights activists. Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. 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. 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. Her family has speculated that her death was caused by a heart condition. "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. [95] She, her brother Martin Luther King III and Al Sharpton sang We Shall Overcome in front of "The Sphere", which stood atop the World Trade Center prior to the September 11 attacks.[96]. [114] She was 51. Ms. Kings consistent goal was to infect her work, including her films, with her familys deeper purposes. 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". It began on Jan. 30, 1956, when Yolanda, nicknamed Yoki, was 2 months old and the familys house was bombed in the Montgomery bus boycott. Young said she was going to her brother Dexter's home when she collapsed in the doorway and "they were not able to revive her.". . 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). hide caption, Yolanda King, shown here in a 2005 photograph, sought to encourage "personal growth and positive social change.". Born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era. [82], 25 years after her father's assassination, she went to his gravesite. 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. She founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. She was a young girl during his famous stay in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. She was 51. She was also on the student council. Joseph Lowery, one of her father's close aides in the civil rights movement. CDC warns drug-resistant stomach bug a "serious public health threat" Soon after, she heard of the event when a news bulletin popped up while she was washing dishes. King was an ardent activist for gay rights,[123][124] as was her mother; Coretta Scott protested many times over gay rights. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. Her mother tried to debunk this, insisting that they would still get it. Sometime after Martin Luther King's assassination, King told her mother "Mom, I'm not going to cry because my dad is not dead. Ric Feld/AFP/Getty Images As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. There was such a need, like they were looking for a miracle. At her father's former Atlanta church, Ebenezer Baptist, she performed a series of one-actor skits 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, Alabama. Martin Luther King III uttered that "Yolanda is still in business. 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. [11] When she was 6 years old, she was saddened by classmates' remarks that her father was a "jailbird". 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. Lawmakers and activists including Andrea Waters King , Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Rev. 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. 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