ATLANTA, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Bernice King is the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the U.S. civil rights group first led by her slain father said Friday.
King, 46, the youngest child of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and a minister at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., is the organization's seventh permanent president and its first female leader, SCLC spokeswoman Renee Richardson told CNN. Her father was co-founder and first president of the group, founded in 1957.