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  • For a number of years, the negro passengers

  • on the City bus lines of Montgomery,

  • have been humiliated,

  • intimidated

  • and faced threats on this bus line.

  • Just the other day, one of the

  • fine citizens of our community,

  • Mrs. Rosa Parks,

  • was arrested because she refused

  • to give up her seat for a white passenger.

  • Mrs. Rosa Parks was arrested

  • and taken down to jail,

  • taken from the bus,

  • just because she refused to give up her seat.

  • At present, we are in the midst of a protest,

  • negro citizens of Montgomery,

  • representing some 44 percent of the population.

  • 90 percent at least of the regular negro

  • bus passengers are staying off the buses,

  • and we plan to continue until something is done.

  • (Silence.)

  • Although many have been arrested,

  • we continue --

  • listen to me.

  • We continue to have a protest.

  • For none of our actions have been found illegal.

  • (Crowd noises.)

  • The carpool and all we have done

  • in this struggle continues.

  • (Crowd roars.)

For a number of years, the negro passengers

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