THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, CHAMPIONED BY THE BAPTIST MINISTER, WAS SIGNED INTO LAW 50 YEARS AGO. A LOOK AT LOTS FROM THE HERITAGE AUCTIONS ARCHIVES
8NUMBER OF NOTECARDS (above) King used to deliver a speech, circa December 1959, to his congregation at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The cards sold for $31,250 at an October 2013 auction.
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NUMBER OF AUTOGRAPHS (Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King) on the 1956 comic book Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story. It realized $2,270.50 at a December 2011 auction.
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TIME OF EVENING King autographed his book Stride Toward Freedom, as promoted in this broadside for a mass meeting Dec. 10, 1958, in Atlanta. It sold for $2,000 in April 2014.
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COVER DATE IN February 1957 for Time magazine on which King made the first of his four appearances. This autographed copy realized $6,875 at an October 2013 auction.
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HEIGHT IN INCHES of Lincoln rocking chair that King used while working at his editor’s White Plains, N.Y. cabin. It realized $8,365 at a November 2009 auction.
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NUMBER OF PAGES in King’s 1967 book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, inscribed “To Mr. and Mrs. Walter Roberts With Best Wishes for Peace and Brotherhood Martin Luther King, Jr.” This copy sold for $5,228 in September 2011.
1965
YEAR a Nobel Peace Prize dinner honoring King was held at the Sheraton Cleveland Hotel. A dinner program, with stain, signed by King sold for $3,585 in September 2011.