The Nation - News from April 7, 1988

Boston University declared that it owns all of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s papers and demanded that the widow of the slain civil rights leader immediately surrender any such papers in her possession to the school. The university made the demand in a counterclaim filed in response to a suit in which Coretta Scott King seeks the return of 83,000 documents her husband gave the school four years before his death. BU contended that it owned not only those documents but also any other documents written by or collected by King. In her suit, Mrs. King requests that BU be ordered to give the King papers it has to an Atlanta center dedicated to King.