[1] At the time of his death, he held the position of Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in their Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

[1] He graduated from Boston Technical High School in 1946 and then from Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics.

He continued doing community work, focusing on street-corner gangs as Youth Director at the United South End Settlements (USES).

[5] He brought job training for the unemployed and organized the community around public school, employment, and human services delivery issues.

[6] In 1968, King helped organize a sit-in at the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) office on April 25 in protest of a planned parking garage that was going to be built at the corner of Dartmouth and Columbus Streets in the South End, a site where housing had been leveled.

Celtics legend Bill Russell, who owned a South End restaurant, provided food for the protestors.

King told reporters that the key to the project was convincing ordinary Bostonians that they had to play a role in the development of their neighborhood.

King and Flynn had known each other since childhood, meeting through both playing basketball, and had both served as state representatives at the same time and worked together there on legislation.

He also supported the candidacies of other Green-Rainbow Party candidates; Danny Factor for Secretary of the Commonwealth and Ian Jackson for Treasurer.

[22] In 1970, King created the Community Fellows Program (CFP) in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.

[23] He served as an adjunct professor of Urban Studies and Planning and director of the Community Fellows Program for twenty-five years until 1996.

In 1981, King's book, Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development was published by South End Press.

[27] Upon his retirement from MIT, King established the South End Technology Center to provide computer training for low-income people.