214 Notes to Pages 103–109 37. Allen, interview by Millner, 522–23. 38. Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 139; King Jr., Stride toward Free- dom, 78. 39. Uriah J. Fields, “Negroes Cannot Compromise,” Montgomery Ad- vertiser, January 5, 1956, in Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 113–14; Erna Dungee, MIA Executive Board minutes, January 23, 1956, ibid., 121–24. 40. “To the Commissioners of the City of Montgomery,” January 9, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 97–98. Montgomery Advertiser, January 10, 1956. 41. Alabama Tribune, January 13, 1956. 42. King Jr., “How to Believe in a Good God in the Midst of Glaring Evil,” January 15, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 6: 247–49. 43. Hughes, interview by Holden. 44. Anna Holden, “Notes from ACHR meeting,” January 20, 1956, Montgomery, Ala., Valien Collection. 45. King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 125–26. The historian Steven M. Millner argues the response of the people to the settlement announcement was “a pointed warning to the MIA’s leaders that they too had no room for shabby backroom deals that might be perceived as the proverbial sellout. The protest’s leaders were thus put on notice that a firm refusal to back down was their sole leadership alternative. This strengthened the faction of militants with whom King increasingly aligned in backroom debates” (Millner, “The Montgomery Bus Boycott,” in Garrow, ed., The Walking City, 478). MIA press release, “The Bus Protest Is Still On,” January 22, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 100–101. 46. King Jr., “Redirecting Our Missionary Zeal,” January 22, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 6: 249–50. 47. Thrasher, interview by Holden. J. Mills Thornton claims Thrasher was at the meeting on January 21 with the three black ministers who agreed to the settlement. Thrasher and Hughes probably met with white ministers the previous week, came up with a proposed compromise solution, and pre- sented it to the city commissioners and bus officials. Then, without Thrasher or Hughes present, these commissioners presented the plan to three hand- selected African American ministers, who accepted the plan without commu- nication with the MIA. See Thornton, Dividing Lines, 72. 48. T. T. Allen to Ella Baker, March 29, 1942, Group II, Box C-4, Mont- gomery NAACP Papers; West, interview by Lee; King Jr., Stride toward Free- dom, 78. 49. “Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting, by Donald T. Ferron,” January 23, 1956, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 101–5. Uriah