I was just someone who loved someone, and I knew he had done great things and now people didn't appreciate it." Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Her death came a year after her mother died. There, in my living room, shaking off snow and laughing, were the kids in the picture two of them, anyway. [31], King was visited by Mrs. Kennedy before her father's funeral. While in high school, she gained lifelong friends. Despite this, Shabazz still appeared in the state and performed in the play. "[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. [22] King flew to Memphis, Tennessee with her brothers and mother and participated in leading a march in Memphis with sanitation workers and civil rights leaders. She appeared in numerous films and played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries King. <img src="http://members.cox.net/jnashatty/P1020216.jpg" height=450 width=600> She died on May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She was a young girl during his famous stay in the Birmingham, Alabama, jail. 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. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story" 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. Yolanda has mostly been portrayed in films that revolve around her parents. The loss has not gotten easier in 50 years, but his three surviving children each bear it on their own terms. [116], Bernice King said it was "very difficult standing here blessed as her one and only sister. Yolanda, King's nine-year-old granddaughter, made headlines just last month with her rousing speech at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington. Raphael Warnock stated; "She dealt with the difficulty of personal pain and public responsibility and yet she emerged from it all victorious. As she said during an interview, "I prefer Yoki. The pair performed in around 50 cities a year and did lectures together, typically in school settings. Coretta Scott King began to decline in health after suffering a stroke in August 2005. Not long after, she collapsed in the Santa Monica . 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. The "commitment" to diverse members in the audience and the play itself, was what represented the opportunities for which King fought. 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. Market data provided by Factset. Bernice King, Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III. CDC warns drug-resistant stomach bug a "serious public health threat" She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke. Trending News Yolanda and Martin III sat nearby, numb with sadness. 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. 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. She allowed me to give myself permission to be me." 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. [39] During a Sunday visit to Church, King was forced to stand before the congregation and explain her actions. 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. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. [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. [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]. Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, and Mrs. King died last year. ", during a celebration that marked what would have been her father's sixty-fourth birthday. 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. Yolanda King was born November 17, 1955, shortly before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. When she returned home, she rushed to confront her mother about his death and even ignored her grandfather, Martin Luther King, Sr., to tell her mother what she had heard and that they would not get their "freedom now." The two were the same age. (After all, she was a theater major.) 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. On May 15, 2007, she told her brother Dexter that she was tired. "[109] She found her mother's personal papers in her home. Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. Yolanda King, the Rev. Yolanda King, Actress: King. Death of Yolanda King. 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. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. 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.. She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke. After her hour-long presentation, she joined her sister and her aunt, Christine King Farris, in signing books. 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. She then toured the country with the Christian Theater Artist Company, which she helped found. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Martin Luther King Jr. , Rev. 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. Staff writer Kevin Moran contributed to this report. King; two brothers, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King; and an extended family. 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. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. From left: Dexter King, the 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. Thank you for her voice. [5] She kept her father busy when walking on their home's floors. Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 May 15, 2007) was an African-American activist, actress and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King who pursued artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. King was also an author and advocate for peace and nonviolence, and held memberships in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which her father co-founded in 1957 and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. . "I'm Yoki," Yolanda King said, smiling. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. She called for Americans to memorialize those who gave their lives for "the struggle for peace and justice. 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. 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. 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. [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. [17] For Christmas 1963, King and her siblings accepted a sacrificial Christmas as appealed by their parents and only received a single gift. All three of her siblings lit a candle in her memory. Death 15 May 2007 (aged 51) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA. "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. It seems we've stood still and in many ways gone backward since Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. Ms. King was 12 on April 4, 1968, when she heard a news bulletin on television saying her father had been assassinated in Memphis. The other indelible image is of Mrs. King and her children. Yolanda died in May. Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images I remember thinking she was sparkly a good, throaty laugh, good sense of humor, the ability to dramatically capture the room's attention. Heart Attack caused Yolanda King's death in 2007. [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. Al Sharpton, a black political leader, said he expressed his condolences to her brother Martin Luther King III on Wednesday. "Daughters of M.L. Blame the Federal Reserve. Photos honoring the life of Yolanda King from Santa Monica, California - ADVERTISEMENT - Play Music Pause Music Tweet; Help | Login | Sign Up; . She was involved in a sibling feud that pitted her and her brother Dexter against their brother Martin Luther King III and sister Bernice King for the sale of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., finishes preaching at the Washington National Cathedral January 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. 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. King was scheduled to visit Houston this weekend to attend numerous events related to the "Power to End Stroke'' campaign sponsored by the local chapter of the American Heart Association, Houston Gulf Coast Division. In 1978 she starred as Rosa Parks in the TV miniseries King (based on her father's life and released on DVD in 2005). Her mother told her not to, since her father would not want that. [130] During a 2009 reunion at her alma mater Smith College, a walk was done in her memory by fellow alumnae.[131]. [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]. [79] King stressed in 1992 that love would help people make their mark on the world. He would be killed a scant three months later by an assassin's bullet. "[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. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. It was the first time she had ever been arrested. [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. She founded a dramatic group with Atallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, the slain civil rights leader, and started a theatrical production company, Higher Ground Productions, dedicated to what she called personal empowerment. "[72] She was also on the student council. Her death came less than a year and a half after her mother, Coretta Scott King, died in January 2006. [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. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. 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). 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. The statement was made while she was in the presence of 800 people who gathered to honor her father at the Everett Theatre. [24] She began speaking publicly at the age of ten and even filled in for her parents on occasion. "[101] "I struggled with a lot of the legacy for a long time, probably actually into my 30s before I really made peace with it," Yolanda stated in 2005 on "Western Skies", a public radio show based in Colorado. After she suggested that he would most likely give it all away, King laughed with her mother. Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott King, the Rev. Yolanda King is seen in a 2006 file photo. [93] During a presentation in May 2000, King was asked if the human race would ever become "color blind". Her father admitted that he had never adjusted to bringing up children under "inexplicable conditions". "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. I remember listening to the news, in disbelief, in the twilight hours of April 4, 1968. "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. Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies By Douglas Martin May 17, 2007 Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. In 1974, an apparent madman fired a gun in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta and killed her grandmother Alberta Williams King. Though her mother kept her nave to the controversies so she could "fulfill [her] objective, which was to do the play", that did not stop her from learning of the negativity implemented from her role years later. And that's how we can now commemorate his daughter. 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. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. [3] Yolanda and her mother were not harmed. [85] In October, she uttered her belief that her father's dream of integration was not fully understood. [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. The head of the school was Walt Roberts, father of the actors Eric and Julia Roberts. She took classes taught by Manning Marable and Johnnella Butler, and became satisfied with her choice of a college. 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. Mrs. King said the children attended because they wanted to. [68], She celebrated her father's holiday on January 16, 1986, and attended a breakfast in Chicago with Mayor Harold Washington. Higher Ground Productions: www.yolanda-king.com, Yolanda King, daughter of MLK Jr., dies at 51. [106] She became a spokesperson for the American Heart Association after her mother's stroke, promoting a campaign to raise awareness about strokes. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { 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. In her teenage years, she became an effective leader of her high school class and was covered by the magazines Jet and Ebony. "[126] Like her parents and siblings, King did not publicly affiliate with a political party. "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. 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. } ", "Yolanda never wavered from a commitment to nonviolent social change and justice for all," he said. To Yolanda, it seemed as if adults naturally went to jail occasionally, because all those she knew seemed to do that. hide caption, Yolanda King, shown here in a 2005 photograph, sought to encourage "personal growth and positive social change.". Jesse Jackson stated that King "lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle. [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. Please enter valid email address to continue. display: none; 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. None of them have children, and there will be no third generation of Kings to carry on Martin Luther King's legacy. We cannot be satisfied with a few black faces in high places when millions of our people have been locked out." When he did, she would play and swim with him. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. But acting, I could be zany, silly, sometimes the foolish person that I am. Supervisor Kenneth Hahn said to King that he "sensed I was in the presence of a great man when I met your father. [32] After the funeral, she was visited by classmates from Spring Street Middle School with flowers and cards. 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. Her paternal grandfather, the Rev. 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. 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. She was one of the first black children at a previously segregated elementary school in Atlanta, where she endured racial epithets. [13][14] In honor of her father, King promoted a show in Los Angeles entitled "Achieving the Dream" in 2001. }, First published on May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM. Her family has speculated that her death was caused by a heart condition. 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. [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. [108] After Coretta died on January 30, 2006, Yolanda, like her siblings, attended her funeral. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but think it might have been a heart problem. One of her father's close aides in the civil rights movement, the Rev. hide caption. Klein said the family did not know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem. [29] King complimented her mother as a "brave and strong lady," leading to a hug between them. Her brother Martin III was born in 1957; brother Dexter in 1961; and sister Bernice in 1963. "[37] King openly stated years later that she did not hate James Earl Ray.[38]. Garrow says his first inclination when he heard of Yolanda's death was: This is it. Leading up to her death, she was still active in the public eye. 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. 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. She was 12 when her father was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968. Martin Luther King Jr., and a friend of the gay community, died on May 15. Flying bug found at Walmart turns out to be rare Jurassic-era insect [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. 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. Showing Editorial results for yolanda king. Sharpton said Yolanda King was a "torch bearer for her parents and a committed activist in her own right. "[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. [50] King would ultimately attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts after graduating from high school. 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. She debunked complacency in having any role in progression of her father's dream. [41] Her inclinations were driven to be artistic, which did not suit the political aspects of her father's life. 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. [28] [61] Both were worried that they would not like each other due to their fathers' legacies. Father's death: 1968 Teenage years and high school: 1968-1972 Early adulthood College: 1972-1976 . Yolanda King was active in education during the start of her acting career, working as a professor for three years at Fordham University before moving to Los Angeles in 1990. King and her brother Martin III bragged about their selflessness at school. But walking through the first part of the exhibit I felt that terror. [16] She predicted at that time that all of the "Negro leaders" would be killed and the non-leading African-Americans would agree to segregation. or redistributed. Joseph Lowery, said Wednesday he was stunned and saddened by the news of King's death. In life, she said, I had to be prim and proper and poised the King daughter. She became a secondary caregiver to her younger siblings. 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 1958, Dr. King narrowly escaped death when he was stabbed in a bookstore in Harlem. The movement was in her DNA. Yolanda, from your one and only, I thank you for being a sister and for being a friend." accessed ), memorial page for Yolanda Denise King (17 Nov 1955-15 May 2007), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19405381; . [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 wrote "Yolanda proved daily that it was possible to smile while wreathed in sadness. 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. "[73] At this point in her life, King also served as director of cultural affairs for the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and was tasked with raising and directing funds for all artistic events.[74]. 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