Andrew Young and Shirley Franklin, both high yellow honchos in Atlanta, made a mad dash to borrow $32 million to purchase "personal papers" of communist agitator Martin L. King Jr.

Now the Coca-Cola Company is going to give them a place to display it in order to subject the masses to communist beliefs. Add Coca-Cola to the boycott list.

King Papers Paying Off for Icon's Hometown
Last Edited: Saturday, 23 Jun 2007, 8:01 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) -- It has been a year since Atlanta bought the Martin Luther King Junior Collection, returning more than 10,000 of the civil rights icon's personal papers and books to his hometown.

But the papers could have just as easily ended up another city's treasure.

Andrew Young -- King's friend and lieutenant in the civil rights movement -- said he almost panicked when he heard days before the auction that officials in Washington and New York were looking to buy the collection.

Young went to Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and argued that the papers were too valuable to Atlanta's history and that they shouldn't leave the South.

Franklin had convinced a network of business and civic leaders to back up the $32 million loan within hours.

The city already has raised most of the money needed to pay off the loan -- a deal that was closed on June 23rd, 2006. That's a week before a public sale of the documents was to take place at New York auction house Sotheby's.

The loan is due in June 2008, but organizers hopes to have the bill paid by October -- long before Franklin leaves office in 2009.

They also want to capitalize on the papers' momentum as Atlanta focuses on funding a proposed civil and human rights center [color="Red"](by "human" they mean "nigger"). The papers are expected to be the centerpiece of the downtown museum -- which could be located not far from King's birthplace.

The Coca-Cola Co. donated 2.5 acres near the popular Georgia Aquarium and the new World of Coca-Cola in October to develop the museum. Civic leaders have supported that location, though other sites -- including a location closer to King's birthplace -- are also being considered.

Franklin said the museum is still in the planning stages, and a committee is working to determine its focus. She said she hoped a financial plan would be in place by the end of the year, and expects the project to cost about $100 million.

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