We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning. -Jim Zwerg

 

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.


-Jim Zwerg
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We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

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We had police protection all the way to Montgomery. The police plane was overhead. John was so relaxed he fell asleep.

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By this time another group of kids had come down from Nashville. So 22 of us spent the night in the Birmingham bus station with the Klan marching around outside. -Jim Zwerg
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I was the only white.

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He invited me to go to church with him after the stand-ins.

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For 1961 there was a picture of me in the hospital. So many people had gone through so much more. I started crying. I shouldn't be up there. -Jim Zwerg
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He pulled out a paperback of Dr. King's book, 'Stride Toward Freedom,' about the Montgomery bus boycott. He said, 'Read this.' He was bright enough to realize violence was not the answer.

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