babies." King is director of the activist group Civil Rights for the Unborn and is director of Priests for Life's African American outreach. In 1996, she denounced her aunt Coretta Scott King for her support for abortion rights. On September 22, 2020, King appeared in Birmingham alongside political activists including Amie Beth Dickinson to present the Equality Proclamation. The document, signed on the 158th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation's signing, argued that the tactics and locations of abortion providers like Planned Parenthood were racially discriminatory. According to a document distributed by the group, King and the other signees believed that “the targeted practices of Alabama abortion providers are both discriminatory and disproportionately harmful to black mothers and their babies” and that a legal case could be made against abortion using the Tenth Amendment. 2010 "Restoring Honor" rally King spoke at Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial in August 2010. ABC News reported that in King's speech, she hoped that "white privilege will become human privilege and that America will soon repent of the sin of racism and return itself to honor." Opposition to same-sex marriage King has spoken out against same-sex marriage. In 2010 she equated same-sex marriage to genocide at a rally in Atlanta, saying, "We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage." In a 2015 essay, she wrote that "life is a human and civil right, so is procreative marriage. . . . We must now go back to the beginning, starting with Genesis, and teach about God's plan for marriage." Personal life King is African-American. She has been married and divorced three times. Her first marriage was to Eddie Clifford Beal, her second marriage was to Jerry Ellis, and her third marriage was to Israel Tookes. She has six children. King has alleged that her novel, The Arab Heart, was plagiarized in the 1988 film Coming to America. Works King has written the following books: For generations to come: Poetry by Alveda King Beal (as Alveda King Beal) (1986) The Arab Heart (as Alveda King Beal) (1986) I Don't Want Your Man, I Want My Own (2001) Sons of Thunder: The King Family Legacy (2003) Who We Are In Christ Jesus (2008) How Can the Dream Survive If We Murder the Children?: Abortion is Not a Civil Right! (2008) King Rules: Ten Truths for You, Your Family, and