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Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, dies at 51

 

POSTED: 7:30 a.m. EDT, May 16, 2007

 

Story Highlights• The Rev. Joseph Lowery says Yolanda King "wore the mantle of princess"

• Cause of death uncertain; family suspects heart problem

• She played Rosa Parks in a miniseries and appeared in "Ghosts of Mississippi"

• Her death comes more than a year after her mother, Coretta Scott King, died

 

 

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Yolanda Denise King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s eldest child who pursued her father's dream of racial harmony through acting and motivational speaking, has died. She was 51.

 

King died late Tuesday in Santa Monica, California, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center. The family did not know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem, he said.

 

Born on November 17, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era.

 

 

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There were childhood pictures of her and her siblings at the MLK exhibit currently on display at the Atlanta History Museum.

 

May she rest in peace.

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