Christine King Farris, sister of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dies at age 95
“I love you and will miss you, Aunt Christine,” Rev. King wrote. She was 95, the King Center said in a news release announcing Farris’ death. Martin Luther King III, Rev. King’s brother, also remembered his aunt, writing on Twitter, “Aunt Christine embodied what it meant to be a public servant,” and that his aunt, just like his dad, spent her life fighting for equality and against racism.
’s wife in 1968, and together they began a memorial library “documenting Dr. King’s journey and the civil rights movement that same year,” the King Center said. In a statement following her death, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens called Farris a “champion of literacy and education.” “Mrs. Farris was a force in her own right,” the mayor said. “As the last of the King siblings, she spent much of her life advocating for equality.
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