it had been purged of its communists, and it was very much seen by walter reuther as a trouble making local, and so walter reuther actually opposes local 600 wanting to bring rosa parks to detroit, but they raise the money, and they bring her anyways kind of above his objections. and it's sort of interesting because obviously, seven years later rut is going to be at the front of the march on washington. washington and i think his -- you know, he seems like this sort of -- this real civil rights stalwart, but there's a sort of -- he wasn't always there. so they bring her, and they bring her to detroit, and most of the hotels in detroit are not open to black people, so they put her up in the garfield hotel, and she makes a number of very important connections at that meeting that then she's going to draw on both personally and also politically when they move back, not move back, move there, sorry. and so she has a long standing relationship with black labor. and interestingly, it is a -- the detroit naacp is sort of -- it's very big but in some sense in those years it was a very middle