Yolanda King
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 Yolanda King facts

• Martin Luther King, Jr
• and Coretta Scott King
• She was known also for her artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking
• Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public and influential activism
• Born two weeks before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a public transit bus in Montgomery, Alabama, she occasionally experienced threats to her life, designed to intimidate her parents, and became a secondary caregiver to her younger siblings and was bullied at school
• When her father was assassinated April 4, 1968, King, then only twelve years of age, was noted for her composure during the highly public funeral and mourning events
• She joined her mother and siblings in marches, and she was lauded by such noted figures as Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte, the latter establishing a trust fund for her and her siblings
• In her teenage years, she became an effective leader of her class in high school and was given attention by the magazines Jet and Ebony
• Her teenage years were filled with more tragedies, specifically that of her uncle Alfred Daniel Williams King and the murder of her grandmother, Alberta Williams King
• While in high school, she gained lifelong friends