Yolanda King, the eldest child of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., collapsed and died after making a speech late Tuesday in Santa Monica, Calif., a spokesman for the King Center told the Associated Press. She was 51.According to former Mayor Andrew Young, who worked with her father in the civil rights movement and is a close family friend, King had just spoken at an event for the American Heart Association. She was helping the association raise awareness, especially among blacks, about stroke.
King, who lived in California, was headed to her brother Dexter's home when she collapsed in the doorway and "they were not able to revive her," said Young. Her death comes less than a year and a half after her mother, Coretta Scott King, died in January 2006.
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