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Photograph of Atlanta, Georgia, mayor Shirley Franklin (second from left) examining a display of Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers at Sotheby's auction house in New York City. The papers are displayed in an enclosed glass case. Franklin led the effort to raise thirty-two million dollars to purchase the papers for Atlanta. Also pictured, from left, Xernona Clayton, Andrew Young, and Carolyn Young.
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