Christine King Farris, the older sister of Martin Luther King Jr., and an esteemed educator and civil rights activist in her own right, died Thursday at age 95, the King Center announced."The King Center joins the King and Farris families, Civil Rights activists, the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church family, academic family, and people of goodwill
Dr. Christine King Farris, older sister of Martin Luther King, Jr. and an acclaimed educator who taught at Spelman for more than fifty years, died on Thursday at 96.