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Letter Written By Rosa Parks To MLK Is Up For Sale

Photo credits: Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images A handwritten letter byRosa Parkssharing her thoughts onMartin Luther King Jr.is up for sale. According toTMZ, the letter was written in 1979 and sent to an autograph collector in response to their question about what Rosa thought of MLK. This piece of history has been sitting in a private […]

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