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Internet auctions sell Parks programs
Associated Press
Published November 8, 2005
DETROIT - Bad news, Benjamin Henning: That Rosa Parks funeral program you bid more than $150 for on eBay soon won't be worth more than $10.
That's because Adam Shakoor, who was appointed in 1998 as one of two trustees to handle Parks' affairs, learned of the big bucks the 14-page programs were fetching on the online auction site and decided to pull the plug.
"People are exploiting it," Shakoor said Sunday. "We are very concerned about that."
Shakoor plans to print thousands more of the photo-filled programs to make them virtually worthless for would-be entrepreneurs.
They would be sold for $5 to $10 each - covering the cost to print them, with any extra going to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development to help young people.
Ten thousand of the full-color programs were distributed at the seven-hour funeral in Detroit on Wednesday. Shorter programs were distributed when Parks' body traveled through Montgomery and Washington. Those programs also were for sale on eBay.
The Detroit Free Press' Nov. 3 eight-page memorial section dedicated to Parks was also for sale.
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