Thursday, December 22, 2005

King Center may sell property to feds

By MARIA SAPORTA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA - The board of the King Center is exploring options to sell its property, including the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr., to the U.S. Park Service, according to Isaac Newton Farris, the recently installed president and chief executive officer of the center.

Both moves signal that King's youngest son, Dexter King, is overseeing the direction of the center, rather than Martin Luther King III, who had been serving as president and CEO. Dexter King is chairing the board of the center.

Farris, in an interview Thursday, said the center is exploring options to transfer the property to the federal government so it can be relieved of the responsibility of maintaining the center's physical facilities and be able to focus on its orginal mission of disseminating King's message.

"I think you will see the center and the family interacting in a much different way going forward," said Farris, the nephew of Martin Luther King Jr. and the first cousin of Dexter and Martin III.

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