Boston got prime King collection in '64 — free
Boston — During his life, three cities defined Martin Luther King Jr.
Atlanta, where he was born and raised. Montgomery, where he launched a movement. Memphis, where he was killed.
But it was in Boston where he met his wife, Coretta, and received his doctorate from Boston University that King honed his philosophy.
In 1964, he donated more than 80,000 pages of his writings, letters and notes to BU. Compared to the recent $32 million sale of a 7,000-page collection that will go from Sotheby's to Atlanta's Morehouse College, BU's collection remains the biggest and most comprehensive set of King papers in the world.
And undoubtedly the most valuable.
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Atlanta, where he was born and raised. Montgomery, where he launched a movement. Memphis, where he was killed.
But it was in Boston where he met his wife, Coretta, and received his doctorate from Boston University that King honed his philosophy.
In 1964, he donated more than 80,000 pages of his writings, letters and notes to BU. Compared to the recent $32 million sale of a 7,000-page collection that will go from Sotheby's to Atlanta's Morehouse College, BU's collection remains the biggest and most comprehensive set of King papers in the world.
And undoubtedly the most valuable.