It was somewhere in Rosa Parks' heart almost 11 years later, when she made the decision to stay seated on that bus in Montgomery, and it's here with every woman who chooses to say, " Me too."
And along with the other citizens of Montgomery, he set a revolution in motion, not through blame, but by setting an example, and by becoming the change he wanted to see in the world.
General Beauregard informed the Confederate government in Montgomery that Anderson refused to surrender. He also reported the major's statement that Sumter had only enough food for a few more days.
" The devil is trying to knock it all down, but we're going to get it back up, " the son of the Montgomery man who first erected the billboard told a reporter.
After Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to yield her seat on a bus to a white passenger in December 1955, the Montgomery Improvement Association was organized, with King as president.
(There is a sequence of photographs in two pages, with caption says )BENDER, not pictured, is a deputy sheriff with the Montgomery County sheriff's office in Dayton, Ohio.
The Reverend Martin Luther King organized the black citizens of Montgomery. They were the major users of the bus system. They decided to stop using the buses.
One of Banville's best-known novels, The Book of Evidence, is narrated by a patrician loafer named Freddie Montgomery, who gets into financial trouble while living abroad.