USA HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1992 2013)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

[SOURCES]
How many children did Martin Luther King have?

(A) 2

(B) 1

(C) 4

(D) ** 3

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The civil rights leader and wife Coretta Scott King were parents to four kids: sons Martin Luther King III, 65, and Dexter, 61, and daughters Yolanda and Bernice, 59. All four of MLK’s children were quite young when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Concept note-2: -They became the parents of four children: Yolanda King (1955–2007), Martin Luther King III (b. 1957), Dexter Scott King (b. 1961), and Bernice King (b. 1963).

Concept note-3: -The late activist’s children have also carried on his work. King’s four children-Bernice, Yolanda, Dexter, and Martin Luther King III-continue to work to bring their father’s message of racial equality and nonviolent resistance to the world. Together, they’ve switched off as leaders of the Martin Luther King, Jr.