![]() ![]() ![]() “We really owe a debt of gratitude to this person, in my opinion,” said Mussell, an Americana specialist with the Pennsylvania-based company. Scott Mussell, who works for the Pennsylvania-based auction company, said a worker might have been instructed to clean out the old building and, realizing what the log book contained, saved it instead. Abernathy, who was arrested during the same march as King on April 12, 1963, for violating a court order banning the demonstration. The pages also bear the signature of King friend and aide Ralph D. ![]() The King signatures, a dozen in all in ink, are contained on four yellowed pages that have been removed from the original book. Reportedly saved by an employee at the old jail, which was demolished in 1986, the pages offered by Hake’s Auctions are a previously unknown reminder of King’s time in Birmingham, which the civil rights leader once called “the most segregated city in America.” ![]()
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