NewsBreak: Martin Luther King Jr.’s secretary to auction early civil rights materials

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RIDGELAND, Miss. — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal secretary is selling a collection from the early civil rights movement, including handwritten notes by King and a page from his “I Have a Dream” speech, what the auction house calls an unprecedented historical trove.

Maude Ballou worked as King’s secretary from 1955 to 1960, when King led the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

 

Source:  Star Tribune

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