Martin Luther King's children battling over estate
Source: AP-Excite
By KATE BRUMBACK
ATLANTA (AP) - A generation after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, his children are fighting among themselves again, this time over two of their father's most cherished possessions: his 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Bible he carried.
The civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King has both items, and her brothers, Dexter King and Martin Luther King III, asked a judge last week to order her to turn them over. She said her brothers want to sell them.
In a blistering statement this week, Bernice said their father "MUST be turning in his grave" over the idea. She said that while she loves her brothers dearly, she was "appalled and utterly ashamed" of the plan, and added: "It reveals a desperation beyond comprehension."
Then on Thursday, at a news conference from the pulpit of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father and grandfather preached, she portrayed herself as the true protector of King's legacy.
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Bernice King speaks during a news conference at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where her father Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Atlanta. King is in a legal battle with her brothers over her father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
elleng
(131,106 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)She's a total fundy, and anti-gay zealot.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Can't they spend their time fighting for racial justice and workers' rights like their father did, instead of bickering over objects?
groundloop
(11,522 posts)They said that Bernice, along with all other heirs, signed their rights concerning these items over to the estate some time ago. Therefore with a vote of 2 - 1 the brothers can legally do as they please as far as selling these items, with the proceeds being split amongst the 3 remaining siblings.
This is very very sad, I'd think they'd want those items on display at the King Center or a museum.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)They have to sell his actual Nobel Peace Prize medal too?
Pure greed. Very sad.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)That's the real story !!