Martin Luther King III

Civil Rights Leader

Birthday October 23, 1957

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Montgomery, AL

Age 66 years old

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About

Public speaker and civil rights activist who is the first-born son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. He has worked throughout his career to keep the memory and the causes of his father alive.

Before Fame

He became a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, following in the footsteps of his father.

Trivia

After the assassination of his father, he became a community rights activist, and he became the SCLC president in 1997, a group that his father helped found.

Family Life

He married Arndrea Waters in 2006 and he has a daughter named Yolanda Renee King.

Associated With

He was raised alongside two sisters, Yolanda and Bernice, and a brother, Dexter.