MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Typed Document Initialed and Signed, no place, 10 January 1967. 3 pages, 14" x 8½".

An African American Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr. was a principal leader of the civil rights movement, a leading advocate of the technique of non-violent resistance, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

This document is a contract in which King grants to the firm of Santi Ando & Figli in Palermo the publication rights for the Italian language edition of his third book, Why We Can’t Wait. First published in the U.S. in 1964, that work reviewed recent developments in the civil rights movement, articulated the demand of African Americans for full freedom and equality without delay, and defended the use of non-violent protest to achieve that aim.

King has initialed pages one and two of this agreement, at the lower right corner of each of those pages. He has signed in full, “Martin L. King Jr.,” at the conclusion of the document on page three.

The document is in very good condition, with a strong dark signature of King. $6500.00

A closeup of the full signature on page three is above; a photo of the entire document is below.

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