King papers find fitting home.
THE PAPERS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. have a permanent home at the civil rights leader's alma mater, Morehouse College Morehouse College: see Atlanta Univ. Center., thanks to the efforts of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. Franklin helped forge a coalition of business leaders, individuals, and philanthropists who pledged the $32 million purchase price for the papers a week before they were scheduled to be auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. "These papers represent a large part of Atlanta's cultural legacy," says Franklin. "Keeping them in Atlanta was a tremendously more than 10,000 manuscripts and books and more than 7,000 items in King's own handwriting, includes his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize lecture.
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