Harry Belafonte Hopes to Sell MLK Notes, Documents

Harry Belafonte is bound and determined to sell some rare Martin Luther King documents—including notes for a speech that were in King's pocket when he was assassinated. The entertainer, who had to cancel a 2008 auction at Sotheby's at the last minute, has renewed his legal fight against King's estate, reports TMZ. He wants a judge to declare him the rightful owner, so he can go ahead with that long-delayed auction. The documents also include a three-page outline for King's 1967 anti-Vietnam speech. Belafonte was an activist in his own right back in the 1960s and an acquaintance of King's. (More Harry Belafonte stories.)