Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s children have been locked in a battle over some of their late father’s personal items and now his daughter is speaking out.
According to USA Today, King’s daughter, Rev. Bernice King, said she would no longer like to be bunched together with her brothers Martin Luther King III and Dexter King in the public mind.
"We are different people, with different minds, different ideologies," she said Thursday at a news conference in the same church where her father was a pastor. "So please, please, please do not put us in the same category."
The siblings are involved in a legal battle over some of their father’s belongings.
The Associated Press has reported that King is at odds with her brothers for them wanting to sell the late King’s Nobel Peace Prize medal and his Bible.
"I take this strong position for my father because Daddy is not here to say for himself, 'My Bible and my medals are not to be sold,'" she said.
Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. King’s window and the children’s mother, Coretta Scott King died in 2006 of respiratory failure.