normally e.d. nixonld have been that person, but there was also another man named rufus lewis who was interested in voter registration, and when people get elected, holding them in office to do something while they are there, and that those persons need -- going to need the followers of both of them. so we need to get them. so jo ann says one, i know who the spokesman ought to be. it ought to be my pastor, martin luther king, haven't been in town long, haven't been involved in any civil rights activities, but one thing he can do, he can move people with words. i said fine. i said well, let me suggest two -- these other two leaders because we need them to be in key roles, e.d. nixon who knew phillip randolph the black labor leader in new york who was president of his union, and if we make him the treasurer, we're going to need money to try to help do all the work that needs to be done and phillip randolph would help to do it, make him treasurer. then rufus lewis, a former coach at alabama state, well resp

but their preacher about e.d. , nixon and had heard about him. mr. nixon recommended to claudette's parents that they get this young black lawyer to represent her, when she was arrested. and i did. at that time, i thought this was a good opportunity for me. this was my first civil rights case. but, i now have to raise all of these issues in this case before judge hill, who was the judge of the juvenile court of montgomery county. and i raised these issues. they had charged her with being a delinquent and assaulting an officer. because when she was arrested, she did not voluntarily just walk off. they almost had to drag her. she did not resist and she did not fight back. but the judge listened to me. ,but in the final analysis, he found her to be guilty, found her to be a delinquent and placed her on supervised -- on unsupervised probation. i was ready then, because i knew alternately we were going to change the laws and were going to have to go to court. i was prepared to do that. i am not sure the black community was quite ready for it. there were so