case and took the ohio bar exam and then six weeks later took the alabama bar exam and in august of 1954, i was advised by both bar association that i had passed the bar exam first-time i took it. and on september 7th, september 8th, just a few anniversary dates ago, i was licensed to practice in alabama. now i am ready to begin destroying everything segregated that i can find. those of you who know anything about the civil rights movement know i represented rosa parks, and represented dr. king, but neither one of those was my first civil rights case. my first civil rights case was a 15-year-old girl named claude ed cotton who on march 2nd, 1955, nine months before rosa parks, did the same thing rosa parks did, and the same thing happened to her, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus in montgomery. and it was in downtown montgomerie too. if you take it in terms of distance probably within four blocks of each other. i thought this was my opportunity now to begin to destroy everything segregated i could find. the civil rights fair in montgomery, when he was called by her parents, he r