Visitors to the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta last week were astonished to find it locked up tight. A sign posted a block away declared that tours of the two-story Queen Anne house had been "suspended until further notice," although park rangers were still conducting sidewalk lectures about the property.
The lockout was the immediate result of a dispute between the Park Service and the King family over a new visitor center being built on the Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the...
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