Now Wait Just A Second !

You had to have known that this turn of events
in the recent story about the auctioning of some
papers belonging to the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. was headed this way. So maybe now
the halting of the sale of these papers will give
everyone involved a chance to handle this matter
without it having the air of a circus side show.
After all these were the papers of black america's
greatest hero and as he was in life so his personel
belongings should be treated with dignity.


A small collection of letters, notes and speeches once believed to belong to Martin Luther King Jr. was taken off the auction block on Thursday amid protests from the civil rights leader's family. The documents were set to be sold on Sunday at Gallery 63 on behalf of an anonymous woman said to be King's childhood friend. The woman kept the documents in a faded green folder for 40 years before trying to sell them.

"The papers need to be further evaluated before they go on the open market," said Gallery owner Paul Brown. A much larger collection of King documents was sold by Sotheby's New York last summer for $32 million and is now owned by Morehouse College, King's alma mater.
Gallery 63 promoted its collection as about 25 "previously unknown documents" dating from the early to mid-1960s, and estimated they would sell for as much as $400,000. The documents were neither authenticated nor appraised.

Brown said the woman said she got the papers in a debt settlement with now-defunct radio station WERD, which broadcast upstairs from King's office at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King co-founded the organization in 1957.





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