Yolanda King Funeral
Born in Montgomery, Alabama King was a human rights worker and actress. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Incorporated (national officer of the memory of his father), and was the founding director of the King Center's Cultural Affairs Program.
…He has participated in the Council of the Association of Habitat for Humanity was the first National Ambassador for the American Stroke Association's "Power to End Stroke" campaign, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, one of the sponsors of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Human Rights Campaign, and held a lifetime membership in the field NAACP. King received a B. A. Degree with honors from Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts a master's degree in theater from New York University, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marywood University.
In 1978 he served as Rosa Parks in the TV miniseries King (which is based on the life of his father and released on DVD in 2005). Martin Luther King, the father of Yolanda, also supported equality for gays, but more private, according to Coretta. On May 15 2007 King died at the age of 51 , Santa Monica California." She collapsed at home in Madison Philip Jones, his brother Dexter King 's best friend, and could not be revived.