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Roberts responded with some apparent surprise, saying King's"research is very good."Roberts' parents, Betty Lou and Walter, ran a theater school in Atlanta, the Actors and Writers Workshop, that back in the 1960s was one of the few -- if not the only -- school that would accept the children of Coretta and MLK. The families, needless to say, became friends.
55 years ago, when Walter and Betty Lou could not afford the hospital bills for the birth of their daughter Julia in Smyrna, Georgia the Kings came to the rescue.The children of the Kings and Julia became close as well -- including the eldest of MLK's children Yolanda King, who died in 2007. In 2001, Yolanda said of the Roberts theater school,"It was an extended family, it really was. And all of these Black kids and White kids getting along, no problems."
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