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On December 1st 1955, when she refused to give up her seat to a White man on 'the Cleveland Avenue bus' in Montgomery, (Alabama) Mrs Parks didn't know she was about to startwas to startwill startwas going to startI don't know the tremendous movement of Desegregation in the South of the US. After her arrest, the African Americans of Montgomery met and wondered : ' How are we goingare weare we aboutshall wewill weI don't know to show our discontent ? What sort of action shall we chooseare we about to chooseare we choosingI don't know ? A boycott of the buses was chosen but they also decided they were setting upwere about to set upwere to setting upwere going to set upI don't know a march for the following weekend. On Saturday 2nd, everybody asked : 'Are we going to signShall we signAre we about to signAre we signingAre we to signI don't know a petition ? Are we to discussabout to discussdiscussinggoing to discussI don't know the movement of protest in church on Sunday ? '
On Monday, 4th, the boycotting people were at the bus-stop and said :'Look, the bus will startis to be startingis about to startis startingI don't know, but it's empty ! ' The boycott was a success... It lasted more than a year...
Martin Luther King, a young, newly arrived Baptist minister, led the organization of the Boycott and the subsequent (following) actions. Waiting for MLK, one of the walking workers said : 'I wonder if he's going to arriveis about to arrivehe's arrivinghe shall arriveI don't know here by car, but he 'll walkis about to walkshall walkis walkingI don't know with us..., for sure !' Others added : ' I suppose it's been decided that we 're going to sing're about to singare singingI don't know all along the march. The hymns and songs are unitingwill be unitingare for unitingwill uniteI don't know us all ! ' Some other man asked :'Do you think he'll have tohe has tohe's going to have tohe'sI don't know use a microphone or a loudspeaker ? ' When he arrived, Luther King said : 'Let's go now, are we ?shall we ?are we going to?are we about to ?I don't know ' What is sure, is that Martin Luther King is becominghas becomingwas about to becomeshall becomeI don't know the charismatic leader of this movement, and that a few years later, he was to beshall bewas beingwas about to beI don't know awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his highprofile non-violent actions !