INHERITING THE MOVEMENT: DAUGHTER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. REFLECTS ON MESSAGE OF NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE
INHERITING THE MOVEMENT: DAUGHTER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. REFLECTS ON MESSAGE OF NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE
Source: SPLC/Brad Bennett Director of Editorial Services
The youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. playfully wrestled with another girl in high school and trapped her in a headlock.
The girl fought back. She scratched Bernice King’s face and pulled her hair. Bernice wanted to throw a punch, but her parents’ nonviolent training kicked in.
“Somebody has to cut off the chain of violence,” her mother, Coretta Scott King, would say, reflecting the nonviolent philosophy she and her husband had espoused together.
Dr. Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan. 20, 2020. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
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