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negroman SCLC - we learn that this the MIA was set up at the time of the bus boycott and has become the center in montgomery for all groups on Civil Rights.
A Reverend Palmer comes in, heavens what an elegant man, large and handsome.
We decide we cannot get back and check out of the motel and will go to Selma as we are, Mr Johnson thinks it a good idea to have a reservation in Montgomery to prove we are not vagrants and help keep us from being arrested at least on that charge.
The police do anything to arrest people. The singing continues and is most beautiful. We all feel so welcomed and safe - what a contrast with being with white people - as we left the motel we were watched
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by the police in a car, looking up at our balcony, later out front as we drove away with Mr King the same car watched us.
We finally walk around the two blocks to the church: two abreast through the middle of the streets, past more run down houses with negroes sitting and nodding to us as we go along.
We arrive at the First C.M.E. Church at 776 South Holt St. The Rev Jesse L. Douglas Minister. We are ushered into his office - there is Rev Seay and Rev Palmer, and other Montgomery churchmen -
Deans Unsworth is to deliver the Eulogy - but he telephones the possee has surrounded Browns Chapel and will not allow anyone in or out - so it is decided to