Martin Luther King III
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Martin Luther King III (born October 23, 1957, in Montgomery, Alabama) is a human rights advocate and community activist. He is the first son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. His siblings are Dexter Scott King, and Rev. Bernice Albertine King. He is also the brother of the late Yolanda Denise King. King attended The Galloway School and went on to Morehouse College, which was the same school his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather attended.
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[edit] Career
King served as an elected commissioner of Fulton County, Georgia, from 1987 to 1993.
In 1997, King was unanimously elected to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a civil rights organization founded by his father. King left the SCLC in January 2004 to take over the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change from his brother, Dexter Scott King. In 2006, King founded and currently heads an organization called Realizing the Dream.
On March 29, 2008, King threw out the first pitch at the MLB Civil Rights Game.
[edit] Family
In May 2006, Martin Luther King III married longtime girlfriend Arndrea Waters,[1] but the couple kept the marriage private until January 2008[citation needed]. On May 25, 2008 the couple gave birth to Yolanda Renee King, named after her father's late sister.[1]
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[edit] See also
- Martin Luther King, Sr. His grandfather who was an early civil rights leader and an advocate for social justice.
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