Bernice Albertine King ( born March 28 , 1963 ) is an American minister and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King . She was five years old when her father was assassinated . In her adolescence , King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father . King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations . Twenty years after her father was assassinated , she preached her trial sermon . Inspired by her parents ' activism , she was arrested multiple times during her early adulthood
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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