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May 23. 2007
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MLK Daughter Remembered
Eldest child
pursed father's
dream of peace
A public memorial service will be
held in Atlanta on Thursday at
Ebenezer Baptist Church Horizons
Sanctuary — across Auburn Av­
enue from Ebenezer's historic sanc­
tuary where Yolanda King's father
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once
preached. Another service will be
held in Los Angeles.
Yolanda King, 5 1, died May 22 in
California where she appeared in
numerous films, including "Ghosts
of Mississippi," and played Rosa
Parks in the 1978 miniseries "King."
She also ran a production com­
pany.
Her death came less than a year
and a half after Coretta Scott King
died in January 2006 after battling
ovarian cancer and the effects of a
stroke.
She was the civil rights couple's
eldest child and had pursued her
father's dream of racial harmony
through drama and motivational
speaking.
Former Mayor Andrew Young,
a lieutenant of her father's who has
remained close to the family, said
King was going to her brother
Dexter's home when she collapsed
in the doorway. Relatives think her
death was related to a heart prob­
lem.
"Yolanda was lovely. She wore
the mantle of princess, and she
wore it with dignity and charm,"
said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, one
of her father's close aides in the ci vil
rights movement. He added she
was "thoroughly committed to the
movement and found her own
means of expressing that commit­
ment through drama."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who
also worked with her father, said:
"She lived with a lot of the trauma
of our struggle. The movement was
in her DN A." The Rev. A1 Sharpton
called her a "torch bearer for her
parents and a committed activist in
her own right."
Yolanda Denise King — nick­
named Yoki by the family — was
bom Nov. 17, 1955, in Montgom­
ery, Ala., where her father was then
preaching. Her brother Martin III
was bom in 1957;brotherDexterin
1961; and sister Bernice in 1963.
Yolanda Denise King
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King with
with three o f their four children in their Atlanta, Ga. home on
March 17, 1963. From left are Martin Luther King III, 5, Dexter
Scott, 2, and Yolanda Denise,
She was just two weeks old when
Rosa Parks refused to give up her
seat on a bus there, leading to the
Montgomery bus boycott spear­
headed by her father.
When she was 10 weeks old, the
King family home was bombed in
Jan. 3 0 ,1956, as her father attended
a boycott rally. Neither she nor her
mother was injured when the de­
vice exploded on the front porch.
In 1963, when she was 7, her
father m entioned her and her sib-
lings at the March on W ashing­
ton, saying: ' I have a dream that
my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not
be judged by the color o f their
skin but by the content of their
character."
She was 12
when her father
was
a s s a s s i­
nated in Mem­
phis, Tenn., in
1968.
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Murder Suspect Wanted
A person who could have
from his third story win­
broken a leg in a fall to
dow to the ground below
escape police is wanted in
as police came knocking
connection with a murder
on the door.
at the Cascadian apart­
Johnson died of blunt
ments at 5700 N. Kerby
force trauma to the head.
Ave., located across the
Police aren’t sure what
street from the Portland
injuries French may have
Community College Cas­
suffered.
cade campus.
French is described as
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5 foot6 inches tall and 130
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pounds with shoulder-
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transgendered person also
length brown hair. Any­
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cused of killing his 5 1-year-old room­ Detective Molly Daul at 503-823-0991
mate Frank Johnson during a dispute or Detective Barry Renna at 503-823-
over living arrangements and then jumped 0255.
Student Stabbed at Roosevelt High
A 15-year-old Roosevelt High School
student was stabbed in the back by a
fellow student at the north Portland
school around 9:30 a.m. Monday.
The victim sustained multiple non-life
threatening stab wounds and was treated
at Legacy Emanuel Hospital.
Portland Police Sgt. Brian Schmautz.
said they caught the suspect, 17-year-
old Mychal Green, after determining he
stabbed the victim during a physical
altercation in a school hallway because
of a pre-existing problem. Green was
charged with one count of Attempted
Murder and was taken to the Juvenile
Detention Hall in Portland.
Schmautz said the rest of the school
was not placed in danger.
Church Questions Police Action
continued
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church dealing with the subject of modern-
day refuge among key faith leaders, city
officials and interested community mem­
bers.
Church workers were additionally dis
turbed by the lockdown of the area and the
operation's scale. The size of the SERT
trucks and the number of officers involved
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especially frightened Sam Earle, the site's
preschool teacher.
“ I was worried that some of the parents
would ask me to put up a larger fence, but we
don't want to shut out the community," she
says.
The issues brought up by the incident
“will remain high in our consciousnesses in
the coming weeks,” according to Joyce
Kindschuh. secretary to Rev. Knutson.
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