A memorial service was held in Atlanta today for Yolanda King - the oldest child of Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr.
Yolanda King died earlier this month at the age of 51.
Nearly two-thousand mourners filed past trees bearing yellow ribbons, to remember King at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Ebenezer is the same church where decades earlier Dr. King was a young pastor.
Among those paying tribute to King was legendary actress and civil rights activist, Cecily Tyson, the Reverand Al Sharpton and Atayallah Shabbaz, the daughter of slain civil rights leader, Malcolm X.
King tried to move from under the mantle of responsibility the King family name brought with it. She studied acting at NYU and found success as an actress, although she found it hard to break into roles that did not cast her in the role of the suffering martyr.
The cause of King's death has not yet been determined. Family members say she suffered from heart disease and hypertension. Autopsy results are pending.
Yolanda King died earlier this month at the age of 51.
Nearly two-thousand mourners filed past trees bearing yellow ribbons, to remember King at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Ebenezer is the same church where decades earlier Dr. King was a young pastor.
Among those paying tribute to King was legendary actress and civil rights activist, Cecily Tyson, the Reverand Al Sharpton and Atayallah Shabbaz, the daughter of slain civil rights leader, Malcolm X.
King tried to move from under the mantle of responsibility the King family name brought with it. She studied acting at NYU and found success as an actress, although she found it hard to break into roles that did not cast her in the role of the suffering martyr.
The cause of King's death has not yet been determined. Family members say she suffered from heart disease and hypertension. Autopsy results are pending.
