Also, fees were a lot lower back in the day... and MultiBit Classic's fee estimation is horribly out of date... as such, it's liable to send with a very low fee which means your transaction will likely get "stuck" (given the current state of the network)
If you don't want to wait, you can goto the "Tools -> Export Private Keys" option and you'll be able to dump out the private keys... although you have to be careful to use the "Do not password protect export file" option... otherwise, you won't actually be able to read the contents of the export file!
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Once you have the private keys export, you can copy/paste them into an Electrum wallet (Use: "Import Bitcoin Addresses or Private Keys") option:
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Then paste the private keys (should start with a "5" or "K" or "L") into Electrum.
Electrum should within a few moments... and show your transaction history and balance etc. I would recommend that you then create a "Standard" wallet in Electrum with a 12 word seed mnemonic backup and transfer for you bitcoins to that, as the imported wallet will never generate new addresses... and address re-use is a "bad thing"™