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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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Keywords

  1. African American Civic Leaders
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African American Mayors
  4. African American Men
  5. African American Politicians
  6. African American Women
  7. African American Women Civic Leaders
  8. African American Women Politicians
  9. African Americans
  10. Atlanta
  11. Auctions
  12. Civic Leaders
  13. Civil Rights
  14. Civil Rights Workers
  15. Clayton, Xernona
  16. Exhibit Stands
  17. Exhibitions
  18. Franklin, Shirley, 1945
  19. Georgia
  20. Mayors
  21. Men
  22. New York
  23. New York (State)
  24. Politicians
  25. Sotheby's (Firm)
  26. Women
  27. Women Mayors
  28. Women Politicians
  29. Young, Carolyn

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