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To many, she is simply known as the youngest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., the five-year-old cuddled in her mother’s lap at her father’s funeral in 1968.

But Bernice King, nicknamed “Bunny” by her parents, has grown up to become a minister and motivational speaker and, in October, was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Con ference, the civil rights organization her father helped found five decades ago.