Well, Mrs Parks had just met Dr King in 1955. He was the new pastor appointed to lead the congregation at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. And he was all the buzz. You know, he was the new pastor. And everybody wanted to come and hear the dynamic speaker. So she too went to hear and he was an impressive speaker. Mrs Parks was a member of St. Paul AME Church, that's African Methodist Episcopal Church, but she went to the Baptist Church on a particular Sunday morning to hear Dr King. And she along with the remaining of the community were quite impressed with his delivery.

So therefore, at the time of her arrest, there was a meeting that came together, a group called the MIA, that stood for the Montgomery Improvement Association. Mr E. D. Nixon, Edgar David Nixon, who was kind of... if we would describe it today, he was like an ombudsman. The person that the white community received to speak for the black community. He was also the president of the local NAACP chapter. The powers to be in the city outlawed the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, the NAACP, so therefore, the people formed a new organisation called the Montgomery Improvement Association, the MIA, and that organisation was the organisation that led the boycott forward in that community.