Getting Their Attention

Taylor Branch,"$32 Million – with No Say-So?" Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 5 July; and David Garrow,"The Hidden Price of Hawking History," Newsday, 5 July, are powerful statements about the continuing problems with Atlanta's acquisition of the collection of Martin Luther King Papers that was to have gone on auction at Sotheby's. Put them beside Luker,"Access to King's Papers also Key," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 27 June; Garrow,"Civil Rights Era for Sale," Los Angeles Times, 30 June, and Luker,"Atlanta and the Death of Civil Rights Scholarship," Cliopatria and History News Network, 30 June, and you get the impression that the community of civil rights scholars is trying to get the decision-makers' attention.