and mary louise smith but they were teenagers. they could not jail the community. but rosa, being the secretary of the naacp, when she sat down, ed nixon said now it's time for us to do something. you read in some of these books -- somebody even said rosa was chosen and had been counseled what to do. that is why she sat down. biggest lie that could be told. joann robinson had gotten from the best -- from the bus company a seating arrangement. the first to see, the long seat across the back, and the first two rows from the back forward rosa was seated in one of those seats. when the bus driver asked her to get up and give her seat to a white man. she refused because she was seated where the bus company had said blacks were legally supposed sit. so, when you read rosa was chosen to sit there to get a case, that is not true. i was in montgomery. i answered the phone when ed nixon called and said we've got to do something. rosa had been arrested. my husband was a leader in montgomery as a student head of the student body at alabama state and an activist in the communit