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Got up at 8.00 and had a bath.
Heavy rain was falling in the morning. Ate breakfast. Had an egg and toast.
Went to the Temple services at 11.00. I helped with the offering; the audience was small.
Our members went to the Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday commemoration at the Third Baptist Church. The busses took us to the Panhandle from where we marched to the church on McAllister Street, about nine blocks. Those who couldn’t walk were taken all the way in the busses. There were no mules. I was told they couldn’t get the mules. Very few besides Temple members were in the march. We had a few banners. A young man, an outsider, carried a poster near us denouncing Andrew Young.
Hue later said Moscone timed his arrival for the TV cameras, left soon after the start of the event pleading another obligation.
The speakers were all very unimpressive, except Enola D Maxwell of the Portrero Hill Neighborhood Association. I had difficulty staying awake. No mention was made at all of the Temple, though our Publications Office had printed the programs.
We returned home on the busses. Chicken dinner was served.
We had a sort evening service in which Hue discussed the afternoon’s events. The contrast between last year’s celebration of King’s birthday held at the Temple was glaring. Current feeling in the city has led to its being almost ignored.