Rosa Parks’ lawyer avoided jail yesterday and received three more weeks to turn over a missing treasure trove of civil rights, Motown and African American objects, the Detroit News reported. Bankruptcy Judge Marci McIvor made the decision during a tense meeting with bankruptcy officials who accused Detroit lawyer Gregory Reed of failing to surrender historically significant assets as ordered in his long-running bankruptcy case. Judge McIvor wants lawyers for bankruptcy trustee Kenneth Nathan to determine the value of the approximately 135 missing items, which include Parks’ key to the city of Detroit, iron slave shackles, a first-edition autographed copy of educator Booker T. Washington’s 1901 autobiography “Up From Slavery” and gold records awarded to Motown stars. The judge is concerned about risings costs in the three-year-old bankruptcy case, which are eating into money available for creditors.
