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MLK Papers find new home [audio 5min]

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers are going home to Atlanta. The city's mayor rounded up donors to pay $32 million to avoid a public auction of the papers. Instead, the collection will end up at the library for all the historically black colleges and universities in the area -- the Woodruff Library. ~Visit website for extended report by Kathy Lohr.
Read entire article at NPR "Morning Edition"