Martin Luther King documents auction called off
Published June 24th, 2006
Morehouse College President Walter Massey says Martin Luther King Jr.’s alma mater will receive the more than 10,000 handwritten documents and books from the King estate that have been housed at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.
The collection, which had been valued by Sotheby’s at $15 million to $30 million, had been scheduled to be auctioned off June 30. Massey said the Atlanta group offered more than that.
“I don’t know the exact figure, but it’s more than $30 million,” Massey told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday night. “My understanding is that the auction is off.”
Sotheby’s Vice Chairman David Redden confirmed that the auction will no longer take place, though the public exhibition of the King Collection will continue through Thursday.
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