What is Yolanda King?
[[File:Yolanda King 2006.jpg|thumb|Yolanda King]] '''Yolanda Denise King''' (November 17, 1955 – May 15, 2007) was the first daughter of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]. She was also the sister of [[Martin Luther King III]], [[Dexter Scott King]] and [[Bernice Albertine King]]. Yolanda's father was killed when she was only 12 years old. On April 4, 1968, the day that he was killed, her mother got a phone call from [[Jesse Jackson]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051600075.html| title=Yolanda King, 51; Child of Civil Rights Leader| date=May 17, 2007| first=Patricia| last=Sullivan}}</ref> Yolanda was the only one of her four brothers and sisters to realize that their father had been killed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rickford|first=Russell J.|authorlink=Russell J. Rickford|title=Betty Shabazz: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Faith Before and After Malcolm X|url=https://archive.org/details/bettyshabazzrema00rick|year=2003|publisher=Sourcebooks|location=Naperville, Illinois|isbn=1-4022-0171-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/bettyshabazzrema00rick/page/349 349]}}</ref> She went to his funeral and tried to act like her mother after that. She graduated from her high school when she was 16 years old. She got [[Bullying|bullied]] when she went to [[Smith College]] because she was her father's daughter, and did not know how to deal with the issue. She got over the bullying by reading his books and started thinking he was correct on his views when he was alive. After finishing her first year at the college, she went back home and at that point her grandmother [[Alberta Williams King]] was shot and killed. She died on May 15, 2007 after talking to her brother Dexter and falling in his home due to a [[heart disease]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052401222.html| title=Hundreds Mourn Eldest of King Children| date=May 24, 2007| first=Errin| last=Haines| publisher= The Washington Post}}</ref> ==References==