Martin Luther King Jr.'s Autographed Book For Nurse Who Saved His Life For Sale

Martin Luther King Jr.'s signed a copy of his book, "Stride Toward Freedom," and wrote a personalized note to Gwen Brown thanking her for caring for him at Harlem Hospital after his 1958 stabbing. The autographed copy is going up for sale over at Moments In Time with a $35,000 price tag. MLK was actually at a book signing for this very book at Blumstein's Department Store in Harlem when Izola Ware Curry approached him and stabbed him in the chest with a steel letter opener. The stab wound was so close to MLK's aorta he would have died if he sneezed or coughed on his way to the hospital. With Gwen's help, MLK made a full recovery. 

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