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  • She has also been for many years a volunteer for the local chapter of the NAACP. She is, in fact, E.D. Nixon's secretary.
  • knows all about Claudette Colvin
  • going to be a secretary in the case, but the defendant.
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  • The real Rosa remembered how the murderers of Emmet Till were set free by an all-white jury just two months earlier
  • an NAACP activist in Mississippi was murdered just two weeks before she refused to give up her seat
  • "The white folks will kill you
  • The next morning, E.D. Nixon phoned Martin Luther King and other black ministers in Montgomery
  • a segregation case to the Supreme Court
  • the support of Montgomery's black church
  • King agreed to head the effort.
  • Anything that happened to her would happen in the spotlight of public attention
  • 500 supporters stood outside to cheer her
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