Feb 13, 2013 - Coretta Scott King and Yolanda King Coretta Scott King, with her daughter Yolanda, arrives at her husband Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral in Atlanta in 1968.

She felt teenagers were confused and were using drugs as a method to escape their problems.At 15 she was subject to controversy when she appeared in the play 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.

For a nation that prides itself on liberty, justice and equality for all, this is totally unacceptable.

In 2000, she was one of 187 people arrested at a demonstration by lesbian and gay rights activists at a church meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, being addressed by George Carey, the then archbishop of Canterbury.Last year, she told a gay rights meeting that "If you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, you do not have the same rights as other Americans.
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The Rev. Yolanda and her mother were not harmed.

Yolanda has mostly been portrayed in films that revolve around her parents. When asked what kind of world she would like to live in, King said she wished "people could love everybody". She was a champion of lesbian and gay rights, and of racial minorities. She was an actress and writer, known for "The white community criticised it because they didn't think interracial sex was right," she said later. "Determined from a very young age to act, at eight, King attended the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop, then the only unsegregated drama school in the Georgia state capital.

From the beginning, she was troubled by the expectations that she would devote her life to the civil rights cause; as she pointed out in an interview, in the end she did so - but she did it in her own way, through theatre.She was first arrested in 1984, demonstrating against the apartheid regime in South Africa. Martin Luther King III speaks alongside his wife, Arndrea, and 2-year-old daughter, Yolanda, at the Rev. In a twenty-four-minute-long speech, she brought up the In honor of her father, King promoted a show in Los Angeles entitled "Achieving the Dream" in 2001. 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. In her teenage years, she became an effective leader of her class in high school and was given attention by the magazines King and her brother Martin Luther King III were enrolled in the fall of 1965 to Spring Street Elementary School.On the evening of April 4, 1968, when she was 12, Yolanda returned with her mother from Easter-dress shopping when King was visited by Mrs. Kennedy before her father's funeral.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 On July 21, 1969, King's uncle and father's brother In her teenage years, King preferred to go by her nickname "Yoki." She was 51. It seems we've stood still and in many ways gone backward since Martin Luther King Jr. was alive. "King was a member of a number of civil rights organisations, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by her father, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and she was on the board of the King Centre in Atlanta.
One of her strongest roles was in the movie Ghosts of Mississippi (1996). Her appearance - opposite a white actor - triggered the first of many rows resulting from her uninhibited commitment to the causes she believed in.

Yolanda was their first grandchild. Her website described her mission as encouraging personal growth and positive social change.As an actor, she played many parts more or less directly based on her father's life. Yolanda is a Georgia native who enjoys traveling and watching classic movies. She also was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963) is an American minister and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.