ATLANTA (AP) — Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, passed away Monday after fighting prostate cancer.
The King Center in Atlanta, which Dexter King functioned as chairman, stated the 62-year-old son of the civil liberties symbol passed away at his home in Malibu, California. His partner, Leah Weber King, stated in a declaration that he passed away “peacefully in his sleep.”
The 3rd of the Kings’ 4 kids, Dexter King was called for the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his daddy initially functioned as a priest. He was simply 7 years of ages when his daddy was executed in 1968.
As a grown-up, Dexter King came to be a lawyer and concentrated on shepherding his daddy’s heritage and securing the King household’s copyright. In enhancement to acting as chairman of the King Center, he was additionally head of state of the King estate.
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Coretta Scott King passed away in 2006, adhered to by the Kings’ earliest youngster Yolanda King in 2007.
“Words cannot reveal the heart break I really feel from shedding an additional brother or sister,” the Rev. Bernice A. King, Dexter King’s youngest brother or sister, stated in a declaration.
His older sibling, Martin Luther King III, stated: “The unexpected shock is ruining. It is difficult to have the ideal words at a minute similar to this. We request for your petitions at this time around for the whole King household“.