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The 3 page letter written to Bernice started a war…
King—the chief executive of the nonprofit center named for her father, civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—had been running the institution for just 19 months, frantically trying to reverse years of deterioration in both its physical plant and reputation. But this bellicose letter threatened to destroy it all with what amounted to lawful extortion: If the center’s board didn’t force out Bernice King and two other directors, it would no longer be allowed to use the name, likeness or works of the martyred leader for any purpose. The King Center would not even be allowed to call itself the King Center. In essence, the institution founded by Bernice’s mother, Coretta Scott King, would cease to exist.
What made the ultimatum last August all the more painful was that it came from two board members of the very nonprofit whose survival they were now threatening: Coretta’s sons—Dexter King and Martin Luther King III. Bernice King’s brothers.
Squabbles among the adult children of a famous patriarch are common, but the rancorous disputes of the King siblings—most of them over lucrative licensing deals for their father’s words and image—are rending family ties and friendships forged during some of the most harrowing battles of the civil rights movement.
The suits, countersuits and accusations of unethical behavior and profiteering at first angered many of those closest to the family, who saw greed as the driving force. But after almost a decade of these internecine battles, some longtime friends are starting to wonder whether they are witnessing the tragic consequences of emotional damage inflicted on the siblings not only from their father’s assassination but also from the murder of their grandmother. They also fear that bearing the heavy expectations of a world that hoped they’d pick up the mantle of a man revered as the apostle of nonviolence is crushing his children.
“We gave them pain but no fortune,” says Andrew Young, the former United Nations ambassador who was with King when he was assassinated in 1968 and has been close to the siblings since they were children. “There have been enormous expectations put upon them, but almost no assistance. They have been living under a very difficult burden all of their lives, and still are.”
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/04/11/family-feud-over-martin-luther-king-jr.html
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