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King Papers Auction Set With $15 Million Price Tag
Sothebys plans a June 30 sale of Dr Martin Luther Kings collected papers valued at 15 million to 30 million dollars. The 10000 items cover 1946 to 1968 including more than 100 sermons the I Have a Dream draft and the Letter from Birmingham Jail with handwritten changes. Atlanta leaders Emory Morehouse and the Atlanta History Center back a drive to keep the collection in Georgia while Boston University is seen as a strong contender for bidding. King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
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New York
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Sotheby's Auction House
Georgia Capital
National Archives
Library of Congress
Sotheby's
Sotheby’s
David Redden
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D.C
Birmingham
Elizabeth Muller
Mother Lode
Muller
Atlanta
Shirley Franklin
Andrew Young
Emory University
Morehouse College
Atlanta History Society
Lawrence Carter