By this time another group of kids had come down from Nashville. So 22 of us spent the night in the Birmingham bus station with the Klan marching around outside.
Dr. King encouraged me to finish my education and pursue the ministry.
For 1961 there was a picture of me in the hospital. So many people had gone through so much more. I started crying. I shouldn't be up there.
He invited me to go to church with him after the stand-ins.
He pulled out a paperback of Dr. King's book, 'Stride Toward Freedom,' about the Montgomery bus boycott. He said, 'Read this.' He was bright enough to realize violence was not the answer.
I was the only white.
It was the most incredible period in my younger life.
The movement was so much more than sitting down with a hamburger. Ultimately, we wanted to change society.
We had police protection all the way to Montgomery. The police plane was overhead. John was so relaxed he fell asleep.
We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.
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