Description
Bernice Albertine King is an American minister best known as the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King. She was only five years old when her father was killed. In her adolescence, King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father. King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Twenty years after her father died, she preached her trial sermon. Inspired by her parents' activism, she was arrested multiple times during her early adulthood.
King participated in a march against same sex-marriage in 2004. Her mother suffered a stroke the following year and after she died in January 2006, King delivered the eulogy at her funeral. A turning point in King's life, King experienced conflict within her family when her sister Yolanda King and brother Dexter Scott King supported the sale of the King Center. After her sister died in 2007, she delivered the eulogy for her as well. She supported the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama and called his nomination part of her father's dream.
Born
March 28th, 1963 in Atlanta (Age 61)
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2020/06/26
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