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warmth, come out he says leading me into the hall, there he embraces me, saying you came, you came oh how wonderful, I have tried to get you, to let you know about this, then, your pictures, you have no idea what they have meant to us all, the search for identity - the search for beauty- He goes to each painting and tells me what he, they, saw and they saw what I meant, he started comparing them to a Langston Hughes poem - George is there I introduce him - Rev Miller from Illinois is there and listens - Rev Vivian continues, how fascinated he is and how pleased I am. nothing could be more wonderful - all of this makes up for the bitterness I have received because of the pictures. I ask him if he felt Dr King would like them to 
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be part of his papers at Boston University and he says yes he would - he has even expressed such a wish - I tell him about the trio that i could not send to the convention because they weren't ready - Ropes and Time - he asked to see them so I promised to send photographs off to him.
Rev Vivian still continues to talk about the paintings - then he asks me to see him later as he is taken off - he does say I think there will be a march - the first since Dr King turned back on Tuesday,We got out into the yard where the sound truck is and can hear the services - Dr King is delivering the Eulogy to Rev. Reeb - we are disturbed, there is no mention of James Lee Jackson - for then he died as a negro - but