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Notes to Pages 121–128 217    14. Frazier, interview by Holden. 15. Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 181; Southern Exposure 9, no. 1 (spring 1981): 18. 16. Lawrence Reddick, report on Fred D. Gray, July 17, 1956, Folder 7, Box 2, Reddick Papers. 17. Birmingham, interview by Holden. 18. Azbell, interview by Holden. 19. Box 3, Morgan Papers; Clifford Durr and Virginia Durr, interview by Lumpkin, 14–16; Morgan, interviews by Holden, February 7, 1956, March 26, 1956. 20. “Fellowship of the Concerned: The Supreme Court Decision—Building Community Understanding, Meeting Minutes,” Folder 1, Andrews Collec- tion; The Children Coming On, 203. 21. Parks, Pierce, and Graetz, “Montgomery Story.” 22. King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 121–22; Matthews, interview by Holden. 23. Ralph Abernathy, Memo to the Men of Montgomery, February 20, 1956, Garrow Collection; Matthews, interview by Holden; King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 122. 24. State of Alabama v. M.L. King, Jr., March 22, 1956, in Papers of Mar- tin Luther King, Jr., 3: 186–87; Lawrence D. Reddick, “The Bus Boycott in Montgomery,” March 15, 1956, in Garrow, ed., The Walking City, 80; Abernathy, Memo to the Men of Montgomery, February 20, 1956. 25. Indictment, State of Alabama v. M.L. King, Jr., et al., in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 132–33; Bayard Rustin, “Montgomery Diary,” Liberation, April 1956, 8. 26. King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 143–46; Wayne Phillips, “Negroes Pledge to Keep Boycott,” New York Times, February 24, 1956. 27. King Jr., “Faith in Man,” February 26, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 6: 253–55. See also Wayne Phillips, “Negro Pastors Press Bus Boycott by Preaching Passive Resistance,” New York Times, February 27, 1956. 28. King’s growing awareness of security issues led him to cancel a sched- uled speaking engagement in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, noting “my present position of leadership in Montgomery demands that I take all precaution possible. The letter was sent a day after riots in Tuscaloosa had led to the temporary dismissal of Autherine Lucy from the University of Alabama. The invitation for King to speak in Tuscaloosa had come on January 10 and was subsequently accepted. Clearly, the climate in both Montgomery and Tus- caloosa changed significantly within a short month (King to Fred Drake,

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