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. Morehouse College Private, historically black, men's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Ga. It was founded as the Augusta Institute, a seminary, in 1867 and renamed in 1913 in honour of Henry L. , thanks to the efforts of Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin Shirley Clarke Franklin (born May 10 1945) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, a nonpartisan office. . 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 New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "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 The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. lecture. |
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