A 1966 letter from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is up for auction for the second time in two weeks.
The one-page typed letter— never before seen by the general public — contains King’s thoughts on the Vietnam War a year before he publicly spoke out against it.
Era Blakney, the recipient of the letter, sold it at an online auction last week for $6,500, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Now it’s being auctioned again, with requests for a starting bid of $95,000.
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