“I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974 my grandmother was killed by a black man, so I could have hated blacks too.”

American human rights activist and philanthropist

Martin Luther King III is an American human rights activist and philanthropist. Born in 1957, he is the second child and eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. He served as the fourth president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from 1997 to 2004. As of 2024, he is a professor of practice at the University of Virginia. His public work reflects a continuing focus on civil rights, human dignity, and social justice.