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. |