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. Ric Feld/AFP/Getty Images King aroused controversy in high school for her role in a play. Family (2) Trivia (7) Daughter of Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King. Al Sharpton, a black political leader, said he expressed his condolences to her brother Martin Luther King III on Wednesday. Yolanda and Martin III sat nearby, numb with sadness. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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. [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. After she suggested that he would most likely give it all away, King laughed with her mother. After the move, she founded Higher Ground Productions where she produced and starred in a myriad of films. 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. She has mostly been in the news. Bernice A. [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". 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. "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. He may be dead physically, and one day I am going to see him again".[43]. The next-youngest, Dexter, leaned silently against his mother's side. She ran out of the room, screamed "I don't want to hear it,"[24] and prayed that he would not die. You can help our automatic cover photo selection by reporting an unsuitable photo. There, in my living room, shaking off snow and laughing, were the kids in the picture two of them, anyway. Ms. King graduated from Smith College and earned a master of fine arts degree from New York University. 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". She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke. Photos honoring the life of Yolanda King from Santa Monica, California - ADVERTISEMENT - Play Music Pause Music Tweet; Help | Login | Sign Up; . He had come up for the festivities, and he had two friends with him. Thank you for her voice. Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died in California, family friends said on Wednesday. "[109] She found her mother's personal papers in her home. Her career as an actor and speaker combined her father's. "[72] She was 51.. 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". The four children of the civil rights activist noticed "something was happening". 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. [17] For Christmas 1963, King and her siblings accepted a sacrificial Christmas as appealed by their parents and only received a single gift. Stepping into Tomorrow led to the formation of Nucleus in the 1980s, a theater company which King and Shabazz founded. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. 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. [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. "She lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle," said the Rev. [39] During a Sunday visit to Church, King was forced to stand before the congregation and explain her actions. ", The Rev. Bernice A. Steve Klein, a spokesman for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, said the cause of death had not been determined but seemed related to cardiopulmonary problems. 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 King wrote and produced plays; gave speeches to groups that included elementary schoolchildren and Fortune 500 corporations; and acted in commercial movies. It seems we've stood still and in many ways gone backward since Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. 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". Yolanda died due to a chronic heart condition in 2007. Despite this, she did voice opposition to President Ronald Reagan's reluctance to sign the law establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day, her father's national holiday. In 1978 she starred as Rosa Parks in the TV miniseries King (based on her father's life and released on DVD in 2005). Marty was quieter, but he tossed in a quip or two when he could manage to get a word in edgewise. [41] Her inclinations were driven to be artistic, which did not suit the political aspects of her father's life. The cause of death was believed to be heart disease. [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. "Daughters of M.L. King and Dexter were in favor of sale, but their other siblings were not. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, She debunked complacency in having any role in progression of her father's dream. Born 1950 and died 2007. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. "[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. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. Wage growth is slowing. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. [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. Her death came less than a year and a half after her mother, Coretta Scott King, died in January 2006. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. Her father also addressed the issue himself. accessed ), memorial page for Yolanda Denise King (17 Nov 1955-15 May 2007), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19405381; . Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. Yolanda Denise King, 51, the eldest daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. Yolanda King was born on November 17, 1955 and died on May 15, 2007. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. 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. King appeared on News & Notes on January 15, 2007 to discuss her. She was just 10 weeks old when the King family home was bombed in Jan. 30, 1956, as her father attended a boycott rally. When he did, she would play and swim with him. 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. [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. She was a young girl during his famous stay in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. The Tragic 2007 Death Of Martin Luther King's Eldest Child, Yolanda King. ", "Yolanda never wavered from a commitment to nonviolent social change and justice for all," he said. 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). Her death came a year after her mother died. She complimented her mother on her achievements and her mother spoke of her in a positive light, as well. Yolanda died in May. "[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. [8] The Kings would have another daughter, almost eight years later, named Bernice (born 1963). ", The Rev. 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.". It was the first and only institution where King was not harassed or mistreated because of who her father was. The statement was made while she was in the presence of 800 people who gathered to honor her father at the Everett Theatre. He added she was "thoroughly committed to the movement and found her own means of expressing that commitment through drama. 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. [50] King would ultimately attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts after graduating from high school. She called him my first buddy, saying, I was tremendously loved.. "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. She received a standing ovation afterwards, alongside a thunderous applause. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid She was an actress and writer, known for King (1978), JAG (1995) and Hopscotch (1980). [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. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but think it might have been a heart problem. And that's how we can effectively commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.". [4] Despite this, the front porch was damaged and glass broke in the home. ATLANTA Yolanda King, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, an aide of Martin Luther King Jr. "The movement was in her DNA. After her hour-long presentation, she joined her sister and her aunt, Christine King Farris, in signing books. 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. On her company's Web site, King described her mission as encouraging personal growth and positive social change. 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. "[37] King openly stated years later that she did not hate James Earl Ray.[38]. ATLANTA Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. Death 15 May 2007 (aged 51) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA. None of them have children, and there will be no third generation of Kings to carry on Martin Luther King's legacy. . She became a secondary caregiver to her younger siblings. 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. [57] Her mother's support helped in starting her acting career. display: none; King was cremated,[115] in accordance with her wishes. Please enter valid email address to continue. She reflected "I had never read his works. Her mother told her not to, since her father would not want that. [85] In October, she uttered her belief that her father's dream of integration was not fully understood. Dexter King said of his sister, "She gave me permission. November 28, 2007 . 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. All rights reserved. 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. King; two brothers, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King; and an extended family. In high school, she was president of her sophomore and junior classes and vice president of her senior class. She became an actress, ran a production company and appeared in numerous films, including "Ghosts of Mississippi," and as Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King.". [108] After Coretta died on January 30, 2006, Yolanda, like her siblings, attended her funeral. During the course of her lifetime, King's name was mispronounced to the point that it bothered her. She founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. [71] [13][14] [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]. "She was an actress, author, producer, advocate for peace and nonviolence, who was known and loved for her motivational and inspirational contributions to society," the King family said in a statement. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [83] During July 1993, she agreed to speak at the Coral Springs City Centre for airfare and a fee in January 1994. 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. ATLANTA - Yolanda King, the Rev. I was a high-school junior when Martin Luther King was assassinated. 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). She originally wanted $8,000, but negotiated down to $6,500. Despite this wish, she acknowledged that this was of no ease and expressed happiness that her father had changed many things, and even made some people gain self-esteem. [77] On January 17, 1991, Yolanda spoke before a crowd of students at Edmonds Community College, around 200 in number. "Thanks for having us.". 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. [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. 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". Martin Luther King Jr. , Rev. Born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. 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. Jesse Jackson stated that King "lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle. As an actress, she appeared in numerous films and even played civil rights heroine Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King." Yolanda King was the founder and head of Higher Ground Productions, billed as a "gateway for inner peace, unity and global transformation." "Yolanda was lovely. She also found "great irony" in President Ronald Reagan having signed a bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday. 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. She took classes taught by Manning Marable and Johnnella Butler, and became satisfied with her choice of a college. Being a busy woman, her brother merely treated it as one of her hectic schedules. She was one of the first black children at a previously segregated elementary school in Atlanta, where she endured racial epithets. On May 15, 2007, she told her brother Dexter that she was tired. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. Coretta had a blood clot move from her heart and lodge in an artery in her brain. [93] During a presentation in May 2000, King was asked if the human race would ever become "color blind". She wore the mantle of princess, and she wore it with dignity and charm," Lowery said. [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. She felt teenagers were confused and were using drugs as a method to escape their problems. [39] On April 4, 1970, the second anniversary of her father's death, she and her sister Bernice attended their grandfather Martin Luther King, Sr.'s silent prayer for their father at his gravesite. She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke. She was credited with having her father's sense of humor.[1]. "[70] "[88] She honored her father in 1995 by performing in the Chicago Sinfonietta in the play "A Lincoln Portrait", in which she was the narrator. [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". She occasionally experienced threats to her life, designed to intimidate her parents, and was bullied at school. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. Sharpton said Yolanda King was a "torch bearer for her parents and a committed activist in her own right. [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 appeared in numerous films and played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries King. They look at me when I'm talking as if this is science fiction. Yolanda King was the most visible of the four children during this year's Martin Luther King Day in January, the first since her mother's death. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Legal Statement. Heart Attack caused Yolanda King's death in 2007. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem. She died on May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA. Yolanda King, Actress: King. [31], King was visited by Mrs. Kennedy before her father's funeral. [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. She was 12 when her father was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { "Yolanda was lovely. King made it clear that while she had not been "endeared" to the institution, she was still "grateful" for her experience. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { She was also on the student council. 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.Her career as an actor and speaker combined her father's activism with her own artistic pursuits. In 1966, Yolanda listened to a speech her father gave when he was addressing a rally. What is the birth name of. Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said to King that he "sensed I was in the presence of a great man when I met your father. Her mother, Coretta Scott King, died last year. But the circumstances surrounding her death make people draw conclusions about her cause of death. We cannot be satisfied with a few black faces in high places when millions of our people have been locked out." King served as a spokesperson for her mother during the illness that would eventually lead to her death. 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. [67] That same year, she presented the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Public Service to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington during the fifth annual Ebony American Black Achievement Awards. 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. Besides her brother Dexter Scott King, Yolanda King is survived by another brother, Martin Luther King III, and her sister, the Rev. I am in direct contact with her spirit, and that has given me so much peace and so much strength.". During the family's interview with Mike Wallace in December 1968, Yolanda was introduced by her mother and revealed her role in keeping the family together. [24] She began speaking publicly at the age of ten and even filled in for her parents on occasion. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. 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. I remember being particularly focused on one of them: Robert Kennedy was somber, even tearful at times, as he knelt and crossed himself and prayed with his wife, Ethel, before the service began. Father's death: 1968 Teenage years and high school: 1968-1972 Early adulthood College: 1972-1976 . Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies By Douglas Martin May 17, 2007 Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. [68], She celebrated her father's holiday on January 16, 1986, and attended a breakfast in Chicago with Mayor Harold Washington. [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. 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. ", during a celebration that marked what would have been her father's sixty-fourth birthday. She wrote her first play at 8, and her mother sent her to acting school the next year. [21] At the age of eight after writing her first play,[22][23] she also enrolled in the only integrated drama school of that time. 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