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Sunday 14 - March - 1965

Left New York - 12:20 P.M.
Jet to atlanta - scared
arrived Montgomery 2:38 P.M.
Met by Reverend Seay
Mrs Davenport
Mr John Krug
Rev Samuel McGhee

After being elegantly met along with other people going to Selma we collected our baggage and drove into Montgomery to Holiday Inn, where we have reservations - 
The whites stare so hard -
The group meeting us with smiles with laughter - showing us Montgomery - the first restaurant. Elite Cafe where Rev. Seay had dinner on the first day of the passage of Civil Rights Bill.
The movie where Mrs Davenport's son went that memorable night
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in their lives - up past Dr. King's church - Dexter St. Babptist Church - around the capital, The first white House of the Confederacy, which we later went in.
Lunch at Holiday Inn - so pleasant, one smiling waitress, the others so bitter, what they are doing to their lives!
Spoke of Dr. King NAACP, while Gov. Wallace speaking on T.V. with his usual froth of there being no trouble here - such a pleasant lunch.
Mr King to call for us in the morning to take us to the memorial services of Rev Rab and Mr James Lee Jackson - Then we will discuss going to Selma - it is terribly tense there - full pressure - 
We went for a walk - police cars all over - state troopers - surrounding the