Report: King Center Trustee Plans Big Changes

Published March 21, 2010 at 11:12 a.m.
ATLANTA (AP) A court-appointed trustee of the King Center in Atlanta plans to remove the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and their allies from control.

Custodian Terry M. Giles says he believes the center honoring the martyred civil rights leader should be on par with a presidential library.

Giles told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he plans to restructure the bylaws and governance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change to ensure a national board controls it, rather than the King family.

The institution has been mired in conflict for more than 15 years. King's three surviving children had aired their grievances in open court for more than a year in a case that was recently settled.

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