Career
Professor Farris was, for many years, Vice Chair and Treasurer of the King Center and has been active for several years in the International Reading Association, and various church and civic organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Christine Farris married Isaac Newton Farris, Senior on August 19, 1960. They had two children: Angela Christine Farris Watkins and Isaac Newton Farris, Junior., who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the King Center. tragedies
Farris has endured the murder of one brother in 1968, the drowning of another brother in 1969, and the murder of her mother in 1974.
In an interview with Cable News Network, she said she would not attend an April 2008 event marking the 40th anniversary of her brother"s assassination, because of the painful memories of her last visit to Memphis.