Book Signing in Marion, Alabama
Bernice Albertine King (born March 28, 1963) is the second daughter and youngest child of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Coretta Scott King . Her older siblings are Martin Luther King III , Dexter Scott King , and the late Yolanda Denise King . Bernice was only five years old when her father died and is the only King child to become a minister . I attended my first book signing yesterday (7-21-2012) since relocating to the historic city of Marion in west central Alabama two weeks ago. The venue was the Lincoln Normal School's Phillips Memorial Auditorium .I enjoyed getting out and meeting more people of Marion. "Desert Rose" details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor. Coretta Scott King--noted author, hum