In addition to serving as a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, she worked with sister-in-law Coretta Scott King to preserve her brother’s legacy.
Bernice King tweeted a photo of herself with Farris, writing, “I love you and will miss you, Aunt Christine.”
“Aunt Christine embodied what it meant to be a public servant. Like my dad, she spent her life fighting for equality and against racism in America,” he tweeted. “She defied the odds that held back too many marginalized communities – going on to become a civil rights leader and acclaimed author. No stranger to adversity, Aunt Christine used the tragedies of the assassinations of her mother and brother to fight for change in America.
Christine King Farris lays a wreath at the grave of her brother, Martin Luther King Jr., during a commemoration service in 2021 in Atlanta. In 1960, she married Isaac Newton Farris. The couple had two children, Angela Christine Farris Watkins and Isaac Newton Farris Jr.
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