1. Dexter Scott King was an American civil rights activist, animal rights activist, and an author.
22 Facts About Dexter King
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Dexter King is the author of Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir.
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Dexter King was seven years old when his father was assassinated in 1968.
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Dexter King was watching television with his older brother, Martin III, when they saw a news flash about the shooting.
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Dexter King attended the Democratic National Convention in 1972, which led him to gain an interest in politics.
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Dexter King attended his father's alma mater of Morehouse College, where he studied business administration from 1979 to 1984.
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In May 1989, Dexter King's mother named the twenty-eight-year-old as her successor as president of the Dexter King Center.
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Dexter Scott King served as president of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, but resigned only four months after taking the office after a dispute with his mother.
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Dexter King resumed the position in 1994, but the King Center's influence was sharply reduced by then.
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Reflecting, Dexter King admitted that the time was not right since he was "probably moving faster than the board was ready to".
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Dexter Scott King voiced his father's 34-year-old self in the 1999 educational film, Our Friend, Martin.
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Dexter King told him that his family believed in his testament of innocence and were seeking to help him.
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At a 1999 press conference, Dexter King was asked by a reporter, "there are many people out there who feel that as long as these conspirators remain nameless and faceless there is no true closure, and no justice".
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Dexter King believed that with the evidence he was shown, there would be difficulty "for something of that magnitude to occur on his watch and he not be privy to it".
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Dexter King's position had always been "that it didn't matter who killed Dr King but what killed him".
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In July 2013, Dexter King married Leah Weber in a private ceremony in California.
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Dexter King called his aunt Christine Dexter King Farris and reported that he had tried to save her, but was not successful and was transporting her to the hospital.
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Dexter King spoke to her just an hour before her death, and did not think much of it when she told him she was tired due to her "hectic" schedule.
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Dexter King allowed me to give myself permission to be me.
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On July 11,2008, Dexter King was sued by his sister Bernice King and brother Martin Luther King III; in addition, he was sued by Bernice King on behalf of the estate of Coretta King.
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The lawsuit alleged that Dexter King improperly took funds from their parents' estate.
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Dexter King died of prostate cancer at home in Malibu, California, on January 22,2024,8 days before his 63rd birthday.