{"id":10127,"date":"2011-09-26T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2011-09-26T13:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:06:34","slug":"mlk-estate-sues-miss-tv-anchor-to-get-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10127","title":{"rendered":"MLK Estate Sues Miss. TV Anchor To Get Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JACKSON, Miss.<\/strong> &#8212; The estate of the <strong>Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong> has filed a federal lawsuit against a television news anchor in Mississippi claiming that he has documents taken from the slain civil rights leader by a former employee, the anchor&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, which seeks possession of the papers, was filed Wednesday against <strong>Howard Nelson Ballou<\/strong> in U.S. District Court in Jackson. It says <strong>Ballou&#8217;s<\/strong> mother worked for <strong>King<\/strong> as a secretary from 1955 to 1960 and kept documents during the time <strong>King<\/strong> led the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>King&#8217;s<\/strong> estate is a Georgia corporation and is operated as a private company by his children. They&#8217;ve fought others for control of the <strong>King<\/strong> brand, including suing media companies that used his &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for the estate say in court papers that the letters, photographs and other items are worth more than $75,000, though the exact value is not clear.<\/p>\n<p>The documents described in court records include a sermon; a statement <strong>King<\/strong> made the day after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on segregation; and a handwritten letter to <strong>Ballou&#8217;s<\/strong> mother, <strong>Maude Ballou<\/strong>, from civil rights icon <strong>Rosa Parks<\/strong>. The material also is thought to contain photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, Miss. &#8212; The estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has filed a federal lawsuit against a television news anchor in Mississippi claiming that he has documents taken from the slain civil rights leader by a former employee, the anchor&#8217;s mother. The lawsuit, which seeks possession of the papers, was filed Wednesday against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}