Transcript: Analysis: Debate on selling Martin Luther King Jr.'s original manuscripts

ALEX CHADWICK
NPR Special
08-26-2003
Analysis: Debate on selling Martin Luther King Jr.'s original manuscripts

Host: ALEX CHADWICK
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

ALEX CHADWICK, host:

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the famed civil rights march on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Today, the New York auction house Sotheby's is going to begin to display and then sell a collection of Dr. King's original manuscripts. DAY TO DAY's Mike Pesca has more.

MIKE PESCA reporting:

The sheets of lined and typewritten paper mounted on the walls of the 10th floor aren't the pieces of art or treasures of antiquity that Sotheby's is known for. But they are ...

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