No Excuses

Reading "Stride Toward Freedom"

“‘If we granted the Negroes these demands,’ [Attorney Jack Crenshaw] asserted, ‘they would go about boasting of a victory that they had won over the white people; and this we will not stand for,’” (pp. 100-101). Crenshaw was representing the bus company that was being boycotted in Montgomery, Alabama. From the very first meeting, taking place just days …