Notes to Pages 99–103 213    26. Minutes, Alabama Council on Human Relations, December 7, 1955, in Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 97; Friedland, Lift up Your Voice Like a Trumpet, 27–28. 27. King Jr., Stride toward Freedom, 109–12; Tom Johnson, “4-Hour Huddle: Bus Boycott Conference Fails to Find Solution,” Montgomery Ad- vertiser, December 9, 1955, in Burns, ed., Daybreak of Freedom, 98–99; King to the National City Lines, Inc., December 8, 1955, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. 3: 80–81; King, “Statement of Negro Citizens on Bus Situa- tion,” December 10, 1955, in Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., 3: 81–83. 28. Friedland, Lift up Your Voice Like a Trumpet, 28. 29. Juliette Morgan, “Lesson from Gandhi,” Montgomery Advertiser, De- cember 12, 1955. 30. Robert Graetz, letter to editor, Time, December 22, 1955, Folder 30, Box 107, King Papers, Boston University. 31. Vaughn and Wills, eds., Reflections on Our Pastor, 5–6, 16–17, 28. 32. Rosa Parks, minutes, Montgomery branch executive committee spe- cial meeting, December 13, 1955, Montgomery NAACP Papers (NN-Sc). 33. Garrow, ed., The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, 67. Michael Eric Dyson highlights the significant contributions of grass- roots leaders in Montgomery whose efforts were minimized in Stride toward Freedom: “Without WPC’s ingenious tactical maneuvers, quick response, and organizational efficiency, the Montgomery bus boycott may have never oc- curred. But beyond a token nod to their efforts and those of Rosa Parks, King barely recognized WPC’s achievements in his account of the year-long boycott, Stride toward Freedom. Moreover, without the spur of grass-roots leaders like E. D. Nixon, the ministers who seized the helm of leadership, or were forced to take up the reins of the boycott—might never have acted bravely to exploit Parks’s act of social rebellion for the black community” (Dyson, I May Not Get There with You, 203). 34. King, “Our God Is Able,” January 1, 1956, in Papers of Martin Lu- ther King, Jr., 6: 243–46. 35. Richard Lischer argues King’s sermons functioned similarly in 1968: “Although he is preaching to others the value of rising above the forces that threaten to destroy ‘our personalities,’ it is clear that the preacher, belea- guered by criticism of his anti-war activities and his plans for the Poor Peo- ple’s Campaign, is ministering to his own spirit. . . . As King desperately exhorts his congregation to choose life over death, it is himself he is urging to persevere” (Lischer, The Preacher King, 167–68). Cone, Malcolm and Mar- tin and America, 124. 36. Parks, Horton, and Nixon, interview by Terkel.