[104] She was hospitalized on August 16, 2005,[105] and was set to come home as well. 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. [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. "[94] Following the September 11 attacks, King spoke in North Chicago in 2002 and related that her father's wisdom during the crisis would have been of great aid to her. "I'm Yoki," Yolanda King said, smiling. He added she was "thoroughly committed to the movement and found her own means of expressing that commitment through drama. 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 died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. 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." after numerous attempts to explain the issue to her, Yolanda finally understood. [93] During a presentation in May 2000, King was asked if the human race would ever become "color blind". Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. 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." Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses reelection bid, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. Jesse Jackson, an aide of Martin Luther King Jr. "The movement was in her DNA. [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. 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). When King was 16, she received attention in Jet in 1972, where she talked about what her father's famous name was doing for her life. 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 Jr. , Rev. But acting, I could be zany, silly, sometimes the foolish person that I am. Yolanda died in May. "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. Sign In . She wore the mantle of princess, and she wore it with dignity and charm," Lowery said. "[53] At the time of her turmoil in college, King recalled having not known Malcolm X and "didn't understand daddy, so here I was trying to defend something I thought I knew about but really didn't. [114] She was 51. 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. display: block; Death 15 May 2007 (aged 51) Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA. As she said during an interview, "I prefer Yoki. The other indelible image is of Mrs. King and her children. While in high school, she gained lifelong friends. Legal Statement. 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. All rights reserved. "[72] NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates offers a personal note on Yolanda King. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. [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. "[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. She was a reserved and quiet person who loved acting. 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". 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. Yolanda King was the most visible and outspoken among the Kings' four children during activities honoring this year's Martin Luther King Day in January, the first since Coretta Scott King's death. The play was directed towards teens and focused on the 10th year reunion of six high school friends. [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. Lawmakers and activists including Andrea Waters King , Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Rev. And I was happy to see that they bore no resemblance to the sad-eyed youngsters I'd seen on television during their father's services. The Associated Press contributed to this report. 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. Anyone can read what you share. She then toured the country with the Christian Theater Artist Company, which she helped found. [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. And that's how we can now commemorate his daughter. The next year, Ms. Kings uncle A. D. King, her fathers sole brother, accidentally drowned. "[128] January 2008's issue of Ebony, her relationship with Rev. That decade saw King's acting career take off as she appeared in ten separate projects, including Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Our Friend, Martin (1999) and Selma, Lord, Selma (1999). She did not understand, and asked her mother Coretta why she was not able to go. 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. For a nation that prides itself on liberty, justice and equality for all, this is totally unacceptable. 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! 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. [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 also found "great irony" in President Ronald Reagan having signed a bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday. 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Below, she speaks at a 2000 Human Rights Campaign gala. ", during a celebration that marked what would have been her father's sixty-fourth birthday. FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2006, file photo, from left, the children of the Rev. 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. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. . } I was just someone who loved someone, and I knew he had done great things and now people didn't appreciate it." She proceeded to read his books, and started to believe that her father had been correct all along. Being a busy woman, her brother merely treated it as one of her hectic schedules. We had cups of tea because it was so frigid that night, and then they were gone. [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. She played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King" and appeared in "Ghosts of Mississippi" a drama based on the true story of a white supremacist accused of the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers (via NPR). Death photos of Yolanda King Seeing Spots May 24, 2007 1 2 Next Seeing Spots Joyful Woman! 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. Legal Statement. Her accomplishments extended further to the publishing industry, where she authored several books, including "Open my Eyes, Open my Soul," which made it to print in 2003 (via Stanford). King appeared on News & Notes on January 15, 2007 to discuss her. She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke. The next-youngest, Dexter, leaned silently against his mother's side. In the early hours of May 19, 2007, King's body was brought to Atlanta, Georgia by private plane belonging to Bishop Eddie Long. [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. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. In 1956, a number of white supremacists bombed the King household. Martin Luther King Jr. 's eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. The event marked 57 years since King Jr delivered. Yolanda King was born on November 17, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. 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. "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 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. In 1958, Dr. King narrowly escaped death when he was stabbed in a bookstore in Harlem. 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. Market data provided by Factset. 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. 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.". She also appeared in Ghosts of Mississippi and founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. To Yolanda, it seemed as if adults naturally went to jail occasionally, because all those she knew seemed to do that. ", The Rev. Her teenage years were filled with more tragedies, specifically the sudden death of her uncle Alfred Daniel Williams King and the murder of her grandmother, Alberta Williams King. 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. Ms. King was meeting her brother Dexter King at a friends home when she collapsed and died. She appeared in numerous films and played Rosa Parks in the 1978 miniseries King. 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. While her siblings were trying to find out what it meant, Yolanda already knew. The statement was made while she was in the presence of 800 people who gathered to honor her father at the Everett Theatre. "[127] Joseph Lowery stated; "She was a princess and she walked and carried herself like a princess. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. The actual cause of her death was not determined. [28] [71] "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 is survived by her sister, the Rev. [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. Yolanda and Martin III sat nearby, numb with sadness. His youngest two children, Esther and Vernon, were vacationing with King and her family in Jamaica when they heard of his death. Showing Editorial results for yolanda king. [10], Her mother referred to her as being a confidant during the time following her husband's assassination. Share Memory. Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. 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 called him my first buddy, saying, I was tremendously loved.. In honor of her father, King promoted a show in Los Angeles entitled "Achieving the Dream" in 2001. The four King children gathered at the February 2006 funeral of their mother, Coretta Scott King. 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. [79] King stressed in 1992 that love would help people make their mark on the world. November 17, 1955 - May 15, 2007 Santa Monica, California | Age 51 Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., dies . She died on May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA. Yolanda King: 'Open My Eyes, Open My Soul'. Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies By Douglas Martin May 17, 2007 Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. Bernice King, Yolanda King and Martin Luther King III. "[27], On the evening of April 4, 1968, when she was 12, Yolanda returned with her mother from Easter-dress shopping when Jesse Jackson called the family and reported that her father had been shot. 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KING", "Black History Parade, King Speech Draw Thousands", "Daughters of King, Malcolm X Also Have a Message", "Son Dexter To Take Reign of The King Center in Atlanta", "2 Black Leaders' Daughters May Ignore Arizona Boycott", "Yolanda King Cancels Appearance in Arizona", "U.S. By the time she was an adult, she had grown to become a supporter of gay rights and an ally to the LGBT community, as was her mother. King became a human rights activist and actress. With Yolanda King, she also founded a group named Nucleus, Inc. in 1977. "[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. In the interview with the magazine, she related how people expected her to be "stuck up" and referred to it as one of the "handicaps" of being Martin Luther King's child. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. King and Dexter were in favor of sale, but their other siblings were not. .component--type-recirculation .item:nth-child(5) { [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. 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. 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. [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. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. We cannot be satisfied with a few black faces in high places when millions of our people have been locked out." [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. Leading up to her death, she was still active in the public eye. "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. Yolanda King was the founder and head of Higher Ground Productions, billed as a "gateway for inner peace, unity and global transformation." Their play Stepping into Tomorrow was praised by supervisors as being "entertaining and enlightening." "Volunteers and staff of the American Heart Association will hold the Power of Legacy dinner on Saturday evening, which will pay special tribute to King and her legacy.''. Search instead in Creative? [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. 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. Bernice A. "[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. 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, Martin, Dexter and Bernice King lost their father. [68], She celebrated her father's holiday on January 16, 1986, and attended a breakfast in Chicago with Mayor Harold Washington. She and her mother, at the time of the bomb's detonation, were in the rear section of their home. Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, and Mrs. King died last year. Death of Yolanda King. 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. [81] In October, King gave support for a Cabrini-Green family that wants to escape the violence, and a fundraiser for their cause. She was born two weeks before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public transit bus in Montgomery, Alabama. What is the birth name of. After her hour-long presentation, she joined her sister and her aunt, Christine King Farris, in signing books. 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. Joseph Lowery, one of her father's close aides in the civil rights movement. Before her death, she led a production company called Higher Ground Productions an organization whose mission is to provide a "gateway for inner peace, unity, and global transformation," as per NPR. [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,". Al Sharpton called Yolanda King was a "torch bearer for her parents and a committed activist in her own right.". She was an actress and writer, known for King (1978), JAG (1995) and Death of a Prophet (1981). [82], 25 years after her father's assassination, she went to his gravesite. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. And that's how we can effectively commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.". Funeral arrangements would be announced later, the family said in a statement. Her mother told her not to, since her father would not want that. On her company's Web site, she described her mission as encouraging personal growth and positive social change. She founded a production company called Higher Ground Productions. [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. She stated that her father had a "magnificent dream", but admitted that "it still is only a dream. She was 51. "[91] In an interview with People magazine in 1999, she recalled when she first learned of her father's death and stated in her words that "to this day, my heart skips a beat every time I hear one of those special bulletins. 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". She was the godmother of acclaimed actress RaVen Larrymore Kelly. 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. Al Sharpton , U.S.. Despite this, Shabazz still appeared in the state and performed in the play. 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