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7:45 am
Mr J T Johnson SCLC has telephoned - Mr King will pick us up right away to take us to MIA Montgomery Improvement Association.
The Montgomery headquarters for most negro activities - we are going to the 11 am memorial service for Rev. James Reeb. then to Selma!
Breakfast - different atmosphere than last night - no troopers in evidence except where we came back to the room from the balcony along the back is a parking lot - sure enough there is a car watching us - as we come in - as we go out
Mr King picked us up promptly at 9am - his friend the doorman was so kind - we drove out, down to Alabama State College, a complex of buildings - for negroes - the oldest in the state
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and unacredited - last night Gov Wallace proudly announced he was building 8 new trade schools especially for negroes - a continuance of segregation - we drive around the negro district, what memories of Columbus, Gentian, childhood -
The clay, the red unyielding earth - baked - the rundown houses held together with a pride, the neatness of a few strands of pride bailing wire to hold together battered lives, trying to be reborn - the underpinnings of the tiny houses yeilding to the bend, the sigh of porches with privet to cover the space that holds the despair -
Mr King points out his post office, his fathers house that he built, the white - the colored separate but inequal schools, as he says wasting everyones time and effort and money giving so little to the many 
We stop and look-