Willie Christine King Farris was an American teacher and civil rights activist, the eldest sibling of Martin Luther King Jr. She taught at Spelman College and is the author of several books, and was a public speaker on various topics, including the King family, multicultural education, and teaching.
Christine King Farris’s net worth at the time of death
Christine King Farris’s net worth or net income is estimated to be between $1 Million – $5 Million dollars. She has made such an amount of wealth from her primary career as Family Member.
Education and career
Like her mother and grandmother before her, King Farris attended Spelman College in Atlanta, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1948.
She wanted to continue her studies at the University of Georgia but it did not admit Black students at the time. King Farris then attended Columbia University in New York and received a Master’s degree in Social Foundations of Education in 1950. She earned a second master’s degree in Special Education in 1958.
King Farris got her first professional job as a teacher at W.H. Crogman Elementary School, Atlanta, in 1950. The school primarily served students from black low-income households. She returned to Spelman as director of the Freshman Reading Program in 1958.
Farris held a tenured professorship in Education and was Director of the Learning Resources Center for 48 years before retiring in 2014.