Bernice King

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Bernice King, 2014

Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American preacher and the younger daughter of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and the activist Coretta Scott King, who died in 2006 . She directs the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site (called: King Center) in Atlanta.

Life

Bernice King is the youngest sister of Yolanda King , Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King . She was five years old when her father was murdered. She studied psychology and was ordained as an assistant minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in 1990 . In the 2000s she was involved in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference , which she was elected chairman in 2009. She held the office only briefly and became the managing director of the King Center in 2010.

The relationship among the King siblings is considered broken. There were several lawsuits over the father's inheritance, and former US President Jimmy Carter was brought in as a mediator in the family dispute.

King regularly makes public appearances in the media: at the age of 17, she was invited to speak to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on South Africa's apartheid policy . In 2000 she took part in the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , in 2008 she supported the election of Barack Obama as president, and in 2009 she spoke at the funeral service for Michael Jackson in front of 20,000 guests in the Staples Center in Los Angeles . She criticized the statements made by then presidential candidate Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton's plan to abolish the right to own weapons in August 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Schmitt, civil rights icon controversy over Martin Luther King's legacy , January 19, 2015, Welt.de
  2. ↑ David Beasley, Jimmy Carter Mediating Dispute Between Martin Luther King Jr.'s Heirs , July 10, 2015, The Huffington Post
  3. ↑ Jet Journal , Nov. 22, 1982, No. 11, ISSN 0021-5996, Johnson Publishing Company, South Africa, p. 10
  4. ↑ Shimmering Facets of the New World , July 18, 2000, Die Welt
  5. ↑ Tim Noken, Michael Jackson Funeral : The Great Minutes to Read , July 7, 2009, RP Online
  6. ↑ Possible call for violence: Trump and his "misunderstandings" , August 10, 2016, Deutschlandfunk

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SURNAME King, Bernice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES King, Bernice Albertine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia , United States