Early on, she was aware of racism in her surroundings, especially when her father had to explain to her why she wasn't allowed to go to the amusement park known as "Funtown." Maybe when I'm older I won't be able to stand Yoki, but Yolanda sounds so formal!" 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". King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. Her mother tried to debunk this, insisting that they would still get it. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. There was such a need, like they were looking for a miracle. "[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]. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. 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). Yolanda was an advocate for racial and social justice, workers' rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and general nonviolence. 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. She and her mother, at the time of the bomb's detonation, were in the rear section of their home. This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial. } Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism. [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. Raphael Warnock stated; "She dealt with the difficulty of personal pain and public responsibility and yet she emerged from it all victorious. She called for Americans to memorialize those who gave their lives for "the struggle for peace and justice. [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. 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. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Bernice A. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { In honor of her father, King promoted a show in Los Angeles entitled "Achieving the Dream" in 2001. "[127] Joseph Lowery stated; "She was a princess and she walked and carried herself like a princess. Like Jackie Kennedy before her, Coretta Scott King sat still and composed as all around her wept. She stated, "It is entirely appropriate that you would choose to focus on multiculturalism as the opening activity of Black History Month. Yolanda King was born on November 17, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Members of the chapter are "deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Ms. Yolanda King,'' spokeswoman Tiffany Travis said today. He would be killed a scant three months later by an assassin's bullet. "[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. ", during a celebration that marked what would have been her father's sixty-fourth birthday. Marty was quieter, but he tossed in a quip or two when he could manage to get a word in edgewise. May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM In the 1990s, she supported a retrial of James Earl Ray and publicly stated that she did not hate him. "[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. "She lived with a lot of the trauma of our struggle," said the Rev. "[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. Her career as an actor and speaker combined her father's activism with her own artistic pursuits. [13][14] 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. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. 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. [20] Soon thereafter, they would be joined by their younger brother Dexter. A few days later, we were glued to the television as we watched his funeral. In a twenty-four-minute-long speech, she brought up the presidential election of that year, and also quoted the words of Bobby Kennedy by recalling his line which he took from George Bernard Shaw, that of "Some men see things as they are and say why? Despite this, Shabazz still appeared in the state and performed in the play. 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. Four days later, she and her brothers accompanied their mother to appear at Memphis City Hall. Sometime after Martin Luther King's assassination, King told her mother "Mom, I'm not going to cry because my dad is not dead. 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. King; two brothers, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King; and an extended family. On her company's Web site, she described her mission as encouraging personal growth and positive social change. [11] When she was 6 years old, she was saddened by classmates' remarks that her father was a "jailbird". (After all, she was a theater major.) 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. 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 her teenage years, she became an effective leader of her high school class and was covered by the magazines Jet and Ebony. She also appeared in Ghosts of Mississippi and founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. Yolanda Renee King declares a call to action to mark Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday: "Although you may not be old enough to vote, you are the future." Yolanda Renee King, granddaughter of civil . In life, she said, I had to be prim and proper and poised the King daughter. He had come up for the festivities, and he had two friends with him. From left: Dexter King, the Rev. She also was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. 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. "[92], King attended and spoke at the Human Rights Campaign Detroit Gala Dinner of 2000. 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. [45], At 15 she was subject to controversy when she appeared in the play The Owl and the Pussycat with a white male lead. "[37] King openly stated years later that she did not hate James Earl Ray.[38]. The King Center in Atlanta set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King says his oldest child, Yolanda Denise King, has died. I don't have to try and prove anything to anyone anymore. She allowed me to give myself permission to be me." Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images Bernice A. 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. #inline-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, #right-rail-recirc-item--id-93e66a4a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { Death . "Hey, hope you don't mind, but I brought Yoki and Marty with me," he apologized as the three swept up the stairs of my DuPont Circle townhouse. Born on Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era. Yolanda, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. King served as a spokesperson for her mother during the illness that would eventually lead to her death. She was 7 when her father mentioned her and her siblings in his 1963 speech at the March on Washington: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.". We must cease our premature celebration [about civil rights already achieved] and get back to the struggle. Heart Attack caused Yolanda King's death in 2007. Numerous dignitaries from around the world crowded into the dark wood pews at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke. She stated in 2000 to USA Today, that her acting "allowed me to find an expression and outlet for the pain and anger I felt about losing my father,". [78] She joined her mother in placing a wreath around her father's crypt. ", The Rev. In 1958, Dr. King narrowly escaped death when he was stabbed in a bookstore in Harlem. At that time, she was also called by Andrea Young, whose own father had insisted that she should. 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 civil rights leader the Rev. With Yolanda King, she also founded a group named Nucleus, Inc. in 1977. Yolanda has mostly been portrayed in films that revolve around her parents. 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. But walking through the first part of the exhibit I felt that terror. I remember listening to the news, in disbelief, in the twilight hours of April 4, 1968. King and Dexter were in favor of sale, but their other siblings were not. 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. hide caption, Yolanda King, shown here in a 2005 photograph, sought to encourage "personal growth and positive social change.". It's a dream about freedomfreedom from oppression, from exploitation, from poverty the dream of a nation and a world where each and every child will have the opportunity to simply be the very best that they can be." Many former classmates of both Grady High School and Smith College attended to remember her. ATLANTA Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. [42] Of the King children, Yolanda was the only one to attend Grady High School, as her siblings would go to different high schools following her graduation. Yolanda King, who lived in California, was an actress, ran a production company and appeared in numerous films, including "Ghosts of Mississippi." She played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King." I am in direct contact with her spirit, and that has given me so much peace and so much strength.". [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. 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. Her career as an actor and speaker combined her father's. Wage growth is slowing. [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. However, she was still misjudged and mistrusted because of her skin color, based on perceptions founded solely upon her relationship with her father. On May 15, 2007, she told her brother Dexter that she was tired. She took classes taught by Manning Marable and Johnnella Butler, and became satisfied with her choice of a college. And that's how we can effectively commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.". "[72] Her deepest memories were the love of her father, who taught her to swim and playfully pummeled her but never spanked her. After she suggested that he would most likely give it all away, King laughed with her mother. accessed ), memorial page for Yolanda Denise King (17 Nov 1955-15 May 2007), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19405381; . She occasionally experienced threats to her life, designed to intimidate her parents, and was bullied at school. [50] King would ultimately attend Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts after graduating from high school. I have chosen to continue to promote 'we're one, the oneness of us, and shine the spotlight,' as my father did. King recalled that her mother had been the main parent and dominant figure in their home, while her father was often away. 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.". Yolanda died due to a chronic heart condition in 2007. Sign In . 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" [57] Her mother's support helped in starting her acting career. Market data provided by Factset. [19], King, and her brother "Marty", were enrolled in the fall semester of 1965 at Spring Street Elementary School, in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The Associated Press contributed to this report. (That moment would be captured for posterity by Moneta Sleet Jr., who photographed the funeral for Ebony and Jet; he would later be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the mother-daughter portrait of grief.) [35], In regards to the possibility that her father could have been saved, King said she doubted that her father could have lived much longer given all the stress he had during his tenure as a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Market data provided by Factset. But acting, I could be zany, silly, sometimes the foolish person that I am. It's often hard for young people to understand the fear and terror so many people felt and how bold they were to get involved in the marches. For a nation that prides itself on liberty, justice and equality for all, this is totally unacceptable. [118], Despite this, she was quoted in January 2003 of saying that she was "a 100 percent, dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying believer in 'The Dream'. 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. [77] On January 17, 1991, Yolanda spoke before a crowd of students at Edmonds Community College, around 200 in number. [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. 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. "Yolanda was lovely. She ran out of the room, screamed "I don't want to hear it,"[24] and prayed that he would not die. 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. [111] She spoke on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2007 to attendees at the Ebenezer Baptist Church and stated: "We must keep reaching across the table and, in the tradition of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, feed each other,". [80] That same year, she also spoke at Indiana University. Yolanda King is survived by her sister, the Rev. Her death came a year after her mother died. Yolanda Denise King, 51, the eldest daughter of the late civil rights leader Rev. U.S. Yolanda King Dead At Age 51 May 16, 2007 / 5:32 AM / CBS/AP The King Center in Atlanta set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King says his oldest. She became a secondary caregiver to her younger siblings. [24] In February 1982, King was a speaker during the centennial of Anne Spencer's birth. [79] King stressed in 1992 that love would help people make their mark on the world. 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." Born in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era. I dream things that never were and say why not?". With Elodia Tate, she edited a motivational book emphasizing the importance of diversity. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [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. As she said during an interview, "I prefer Yoki. 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. ATLANTA Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. 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. Share Memory. King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. She was 51. [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. Al Sharpton, a black political leader, said he expressed his condolences to her brother Martin Luther King III on Wednesday. She wore the mantle of princess, and she wore it with dignity and charm," said the Rev. She asked her mother at this time, if she should hate the man who killed her father. "I'm Yoki," Yolanda King said, smiling. I thought of that evening often over the years, the unexpected appearance of the living children of a beloved icon. Her mother told her not to, since her father would not want that. 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. 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. 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.". [33] Bill Cosby flew to Atlanta after the funeral and entertained King and her siblings. Ms. King was meeting her brother Dexter King at a friends home when she collapsed and died. 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. During the play, she changed costume numerous times and adjusted her voice and body language when changing roles. 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. [85] In October, she uttered her belief that her father's dream of integration was not fully understood. 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. 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. 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