NATION : King’s Son Quits in Tiff With Mom

The son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. resigned as president of the organization that teaches his father’s nonviolent philosophy after a power struggle with his mother, Coretta Scott King, it was reported today.

Dexter King, 28, quit the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change a few days after his top adviser resigned in a continuing dispute over the center’s budget and programs, the Atlanta Constitution said.

King, who assumed the post four months ago, had apparently been clashing with his mother and his aunt over his management style, civil rights sources told the newspaper. Mayor Andrew Young, who holds a senior position at the center, attributed King’s resignation to “a little tension between the generations.”