Yolanda King
Yolanda Denise King (born November 17, 1955 in Montgomery , Alabama , † May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American civil rights activist and actress as well as the eldest daughter of the murdered American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and the Activist Coretta Scott King who died in 2006 .
biography
Her childhood was marked by the race riots in the southern United States of America. Due to the high moral courage of her famous father Martin Luther King, she lived a rather withdrawn life with her younger siblings Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King and Bernice Albertine King. Above all, the father wanted to protect the family from "rash" attacks by his fanatical opponents, although he never publicly expressed his own fear of the "KKK" - the Ku Klux Klan .
In an interview in the late 1970s, when asked how she had cope with the violent death of her father , she replied, in a nutshell, that she drew her strength from it to continue his work. In 2007, King died suddenly, presumably of heart failure .
Civil rights activist
At a young age she was involved in civil rights movements. Among other things, she was a member of the "Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc." and founder of the "King Center's Cultural Affairs Program", as well as a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the NAACP . She also received honors from individual American colleges and an honorary doctorate from Marywood University.
actress
Above all, Yolanda Denise King was a respected US actress who had a master's degree in theater from New York University .
In 1978 she played the role of Rosa Parks in the American television miniseries King (based on the life of her famous father).
Web links
- Yolanda King in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Yolanda Denise King: Martin Luther King's daughter has died . Spiegel Online , May 16, 2007
- Douglas Martin: Yolanda King, 51, Actor and Dr. King's Daughter, Dies . New York Times , May 17, 2007 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yolanda King & Wanda Marie: A shared conversation with: Yolanda King & Wanda Marie . Minnesota State University Mankato, accessed August 9, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Yolanda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | King, Yolanda Denise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil rights activist and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th November 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montgomery , Alabama , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2007 |
| Place of death | Santa Monica , California , United States |