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Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev Martin Luther King jnr, has died aged 51.
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, King was just an infant when her home was bombed during the turbulent civil rights era.
As an actress, she appeared in numerous films, including Ghosts of Mississippi, and as civil rights heroine Rosa Parks in the 1978 mini-series King. She was also an author and advocate for peace and nonviolence, and held memberships in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (which her father co-founded in 1957) and the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.
Her mother, Coretta Scott King, died last year.
