Notes to Pages 134–141 219    to union contracts (Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 45). Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 138, 245. See also Lewis, interview by Ferron. 39. Garrow, ed., The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, 113–14; Robinson, interview by Lee. 40. King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 73. For more on Solomon Seay’s contributions, see Yeakey, “The Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott,” 83– 93; Gray, Leventhal, Sikora, and Thornton, The Children Coming On, 226. 41. Gray, Leventhal, Sikora, and Thornton, The Children Coming On, 134; King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 86. 42. Parks, Pierce, and Graetz, “Montgomery Story.” 43. Ibid.; Lawrence D. Reddick, “The Bus Boycott in Montgomery,” March 15, 1956, in Garrow, ed., The Walking City, 81. 44. Azbell, interview by Holden. 45. Underwood, interview by Lumpkin. 46. Thomas, interview by Lee. 47. Race Relations Law Reporter (August 1956): 669–78, in Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 272–73. 48. American Socialist, April 1956, 11. 49. Gray, Leventhal, Sikora, and Thornton, The Children Coming On, 13. Palmer, interview by Ferron. 50. MIA Nominating Committee to MIA President and Executive Board, May 24, 1956, Montgomery Improvement Association Collection. In the meeting, held on May 16, Fields was officially replaced by Reverend W. J. Powell as recording secretary. Nominating committee members included Reverend A. W. Wilson (chairman), Dr. Moses Jones, Mrs. Jo Ann Robinson, Reverend A. W. Murphy, Reverend B. J. Simms, Reverend R. J. Glasco, and Mrs. Erna A Dungee (secretary). 51. MIA newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2 (June 23, 1956), Montgomery Im- provement Association Collection. 52. Nixon, interview by Millner, 550; Graetz, A White Preacher’s Memoir, 107–8. 53. Carr, interview by Millner, 530; Simms, interview by Millner, 579; Fields, interview by Millner, 536; Nixon, interview by Millner, 548. 54. Allen, interview by Millner, 524–25. 55. King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 157–58, 186. Following the bomb- ing, Graetz sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department seeking an investiga- tion of all racially motivated violence in the city. In the letter to U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Graetz reported rumors that Commissioner Sell- ers may have had foreknowledge of the bombings of King’s and Nixon’s homes the previous winter. Regarding the bombing of his own home, Graetz