Noobink: TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta threw him a dinner party that was almost cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola's CEO threatened to move the company out of Atlanta since he thought it was embarrassing that the city's people wouldn't honor their Nobel Prize winner.

TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta threw him a dinner party that was almost cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola's CEO threatened to move the company out of Atlanta since he thought it was embarrassing that the city's people wouldn't honor their Nobel Prize winner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Coca-Cola_Company#Civil_rights

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