nixon, and fred gray, came to the rescue of claudette. i represented her, we went and talked to the bus company officials and city officials and threaten to have a bus boycott. and assured us what happened to claudette would not happen again. from the time i opened my office until the day of mrs. parks's a rest, almost every day, days a week, mrs. parks, who worked as a seamstress in a department store a block from my office doing her lunch hour she would bring her lunch to my office and i would have my lunch and we would talk about conditions in montgomery. we talked about claudette, we talked about the lack of recreational facilities, we talked about the inequality and all the problems that we had and she was secretary to the montgomerie branch of the naacp, she was also the youth director of it and her husband had been involved in helping to raise funds for the scottsboro boys who had been in prison for allegedly raped in the early 30s and so she was a person very much interested and we talked about the type person -- whatever needed t