Rosa Parks’ lawyer has turned over pieces from a missing treasure trove of civil rights, Motown and African American history but several items remain missing ahead of a deadline today, the Detroit News reported. Items lawyer Gregory Reed surrendered last month include a signed first-edition copy of educator Booker T. Washington’s 1901 autobiography “Up From Slavery,” a Parks print and artwork, according to a federal court filing Monday. But Reed said he no longer had Parks’ key to the city, framed gold records and iron slave shackles. The court filing Monday is the latest development in a bankruptcy case of a prominent Detroit attorney that featured claims about missing treasure, a mansion with secret rooms and crates stuffed with historical objects. Reed became Parks’ legal adviser in the 1990s and said his client list included singers Aretha Franklin and Anita Baker. Reed faced a deadline Tuesday to surrender more than 100 items or face a possible jail sentence. Bankruptcy Judge Marci McIvor last month delayed deciding whether to send Reed to jail for failing to turn over the items and gave him until 9 a.m. today to produce the pieces.
