216 Notes to Pages 116–121 to extend the bus boycott indefinitely. While satisfying the conditions may have ended the boycott, it would not necessarily have ended the legal battle. Thornton more accurately describes the perspective of the white leadership in writing: “Segregation on the initiative of blacks and under black control was unacceptable because authorities’ genuine motive, whether consciously or unconsciously, was not the separation of the races but the subordination of blacks to whites.” 3. Donald T. Ferron, “Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting,” Feb- ruary 2, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 120. 4. Gray, Bus Ride to Justice, 70; Nixon, interview by Lumpkin, 2–3. See also Newton, Montgomery in the Good War, 137–38. According to J. Mills Thornton, Arthur Madison was persuaded by one of his brothers to return to the South to help the family gain the requisite number of registered voters to gain a municipal charter for Madison Park as an all-black town (Thornton, Dividing Lines, 28). 5. Donald T. Ferron, “Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting,” Feb- ruary 2, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 120, 122. See also Gray, Bus Ride to Justice, 78. 6. Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 121; Glasco, interview by Fer- ron; Wilson, interview by Ferron. 7. King, interview by Ferron. For further information on King’s meeting with Folsom, see Cliff Mackay, “Ala. Bus Boycotters Sing ‘My Country ’Tis of Thee,’” Baltimore Afro-American, February 11, 1956. 8. Donald T. Ferron, “Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting,” Febru- ary 2, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 120. King later claimed that, after the bombing, friends and church leaders encouraged him to hire a bodyguard, which he resisted, claiming, “I had no fears now, and con- sequently needed no protection.” He eventually acquiesced, however, and “also went down to the sheriff’s office and applied for a license to carry a gun in the car; but this was refused” (King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 140). King Jr., interview by Ferron. 9. Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 159. See also Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 66–67. Rustin, “Montgomery Diary,” in Liberation, April 1956, 7. 10. Rustin, “Montgomery Diary,” in Liberation, April 1956, 8. 11. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 68. 12. John M. Swomley Jr. to Glenn Smiley, February 29, 1956, Fellowship of Reconciliation Papers; Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 70. 13. Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 153–54; Draper, Conflict of Interests, 22–24; Clifford Durr, interview by Holden. See also Montgomery Advertiser, February 11, 1956. Draper, Conflict of Interests, 31–32.