Ms. Carol King was a Baptist lay leader, an educator and a community organizer. She was a leader in the Albany Movement and director of Head Start of Southwest Georgia — one of the first networks of publicly funded daycare centers for African American children in the state. She also served on the Dougherty County School Board and had a deep passion for the wellbeing of young people. Ms. King was the sister-in-law of Ms. Marion Jackson and the widow of Chevene (C.B.) King, the first African American to run for governor of Georgia.