{"id":81107,"date":"2026-11-09T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/only-known-handwritten-final-draft-of-mlk-jrs-i-have-a-dream-speech-to-be-auctioned\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:55:16","slug":"only-known-handwritten-final-draft-of-mlk-jrs-i-have-a-dream-speech-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/only-known-handwritten-final-draft-of-mlk-jrs-i-have-a-dream-speech-to-be-auctioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Only known handwritten final draft of MLK Jr\u2019s I Have A Dream speech to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The document is expected to fetch more than $10m and the proceeds will be donated to several charities<\/p>\n<p>The likely only surviving handwritten final full draft of Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s historic 1963 I Have a Dream speech is set to be auctioned in New York City in January, with proceeds benefiting several charities, including the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Auction house Christie\u2019s has announced that the document is expected to fetch more than $10m, and that the pages will be displayed publicly at the auction house from 15 to 21 January, before being offered in a single-lot sale.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/09\/mlk-dream-speech-auction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The document is expected to fetch more than $10m and the proceeds will be donated to several charities The likely only surviving handwritten final full draft of Martin Luther King Jr\u2019s historic 1963 I Have a Dream speech is set to be auctioned in New York City in January, with proceeds benefiting several charities, including &#8230; <a title=\"Only known handwritten final draft of MLK Jr\u2019s I Have A Dream speech to be auctioned\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/only-known-handwritten-final-draft-of-mlk-jrs-i-have-a-dream-speech-to-be-auctioned\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Only known handwritten final draft of MLK Jr\u2019s I Have A Dream speech to be auctioned\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}