📚Graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1944
📚Graduated from Spelman College with B.A. in Economics in 1948
📚Graduated from Columbia University with her M.A. degree in the social foundations of education in 1949 and later earned a second M.A. degree from Columbia University in special education.
📚In 1950, began teaching a seventh-grade reading class at W.H. Crogman Elementary School in Atlanta, GA.
📚In 1958, Farris was hired as director of the freshman reading program at Spelman College, and eventually became director of the Learning Resources Center, a position she held until 2014 making her the longest-serving Spelman faculty-member.
📚In 1965, when her brother, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led the campaign to vote in Selma, Alabama, Farris sang at the opening rally on the day they departed for Montgomery.
📚Served as the treasurer and taught workshops on nonviolence for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, Georgia.
📚Founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Child Development Center.
📚Helped establish the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Site in 1980, at the suggestion of President Jimmy Carter
📚Author of three books: “My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Through It All: Reflections of My Life, My Family, and My Faith,” and “March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World.”

Source: Spelman College, TheHistoryMakers