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Ernie Suggs

Christine King Farris, MLK’s last sibling, has died

Christine King Farris was always the delicate one among the children of Martin Luther “Daddy” King Sr.

She spent the first two weeks of her life crying, according to a painful account in her father‘s autobiography.

Born in the upstairs bedroom of what is now known as the King Birth Home, on Auburn Avenue, her doctors were baffled and her parents had no answers to why their first-born was suffering so much.

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