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We arrive, at Mr. Kings grandmothers house where his two elderly aunts live and care for the grandmother who is 102 -
The house, small; white, privet, roses, a porch, drawn blinds, we enter are met with great hospitality from Mrs Chambers and Mrs Moore - are served coffee and cake, delicious coffee it was. They were so kind, thanking us for coming down to help them. we watched Television, which they are proud of. we talked of how difficult their lives are and have been and how terrible Wallace is and the police.
Mrs Chambers says how difficult it is when the Troops arrive and leave, for the reprisals get worse and they are in greater jeopardy.
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We leave after half an hour and go to the Montgomery Improvement Association, a small new white structure at 716 Dorsey St. in the negro district, surrounded by broken down houses with plants in the windows and on the porches. The nostalgia it sets up in me is something hard to communicate. The morning is getting hot and as we enter the building we hear singing - a large room filled with teenagers singing freedom songs - We go into an office and meet a Mrs Gregory - in change - a charming woman in her forties very efficient. We meet three ministers from Maine that have just arrived. Exhausted - a minister from Rockford Illinois. we meet Mr Johnson a young tall elegant very handsome