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King left the SCLC in January, 2004 to serve as president and chief executive officer of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change with his brother, Dexter Scott King serving as chairman.

Scholars like Taylor Branch have criticized the King siblings for neglecting a large cache of historical documents at the Center.

In 2005 and 2006, Martin, Dexter and their sister, Bernice Albertine King, became involved in a highly-publicized battle over whether or not to sell the poorly maintained institution to the National Park Service, but ultimately opted against the sale.

In 2006, King and his siblings sought to auction some of King's documents at Sotheby's for as much as $ 30 million, but a group of philanthropists and business leaders bought the documents for an undisclosed sum just prior to the auction ; the buyers promised to keep the collection intact at Morehouse College, Martin Luther King Jr .' s alma mater in Atlanta, Georgia.