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		</div><p>Dexter Scott King, the younger son of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King, has died after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.</p>
<p>The King Centre in Atlanta said the 62-year-old son of the civil rights leader died on Monday at his California home.</p>
<p>Dexter King was named for the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama where his father once served as pastor.</p>
<figure id="attachment_181309" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-181309" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/B37E0872-3BA5-461B-A659-39B66AFB4984.webp" alt="" width="640" height="806" class="size-full wp-image-181309" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-181309" class="wp-caption-text">From left: Dexter King, Yolanda King, Martin Luther King Jr, Bernice King, Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King III in 1966 (Atlanta Journal-Constitution</figcaption></figure>
<p>He was seven when his father was assassinated in 1968.</p>
<p>As an adult, Dexter King became a lawyer and focused on shepherding his father’s legacy and protecting the King family’s intellectual property.</p>
<p>In addition to serving as chairman of the King Centre, he was also president of the King estate.</p>
<p>The children of Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King, from left, Martin Luther King III, Dexter King, Yolanda King and Bernice King stand next to a new crypt dedicated to their parents in Atlanta in 2006</p>
<p>Coretta Scott King died in 2006, followed by the Kings’ oldest child Yolanda King in 2007.</p>
<p>“Words cannot express the heart break I feel from losing another sibling,” the Reverend Bernice A King, Dexter King’s youngest sibling, said in a statement.</p>
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His older brother, Martin Luther King III, said: “The sudden shock is devastating. It is hard to have the right words at a moment like this. We ask for your prayers at this time for the entire King family.”</p>
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