On the Very Day He Gave His Final Major Address, Martin Luther King Signs a Program
This document, offered for sale here for the first time, was signed the day of his famed Carnegie Hall address honoring WEB Dubois
We found only a handful of documents so near to his assassination having ever reached the market; Dr. King would assassinated just over a month later
On February 23, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as the keynote speaker for a benefit at Carnegie Hall that marked the 100th birthday of...
We found only a handful of documents so near to his assassination having ever reached the market; Dr. King would assassinated just over a month later
On February 23, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as the keynote speaker for a benefit at Carnegie Hall that marked the 100th birthday of author and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, who had died in 1963. In his tribute, King remarked that “Dr. DuBois has left us, but he has not died. The spirit of freedom is not buried in the grave of the valiant.” These words soon assumed added poignancy: On April 4, 1968, scarcely six weeks later, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis. His speech at Carnegie Hall was his last major public address.
That same evening, Dr. King was in the public areas of the New York Hilton, where another event was taking place. It is not clear whether he stayed at that hotel or was there for another occasion. On his way in, a man saw Dr. King and asked him to sign the program of the event he was attending. He gave that program to his son, from whom we acquired it. It has never before been offered for sale.
Document signed, February 23 1968, on a program for the 31st annual dinner for the credit division of the Association of Stock Exchange Firms, signed “Best Wishes, Martin Luther King,” on his way to Carnegie Hall.
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