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I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

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My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

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Why do you all push us around?

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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

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In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

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I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went from first to sixth grade. There was one teacher for all of the students. There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

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Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: February 4th, 1913

Died: October 24th, 2005

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