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Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was an activist for African-American rights and first-born child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, who pursued artistic and entertainment endeavors and public speaking. Her childhood experience was greatly influenced by her father's highly public activism.
May 17, 2007 · Yolanda King, the eldest child of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who melded her father’s message of racial equality and nonviolence with her own calling as an actor and a...
May 16, 2007 · Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, said Steve Klein, a spokesman for the King Center.
May 17, 2007 · LOS ANGELES — Yolanda King, an actress, producer and motivational speaker who was the eldest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and who turned to the performing arts to carry on her...
May 16, 2007 · The King Center in Atlanta — set up to preserve the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King — says his oldest child, Yolanda Denise King, has died.
May 16, 2007 · ATLANTA — Yolanda King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s eldest child who pursued her father’s dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, collapsed and died after ...
King, Yolanda Denise. November 17, 1955 to May 15, 2007. Bob Fitch photography archive, © Stanford University Libraries. The eldest child of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, Yolanda was born 17 November 1955, less than a month before the launch of the Montgomery bus boycott.