"" This letter didn't move the government. They didn't think that blacks would be able to organize a boycott and blacks could lose a lot by standing up for what they believed in. E.D. Nixon and the NAACP new that they needed someone to stand up for themselves as a black. Once they had this person they could make the move toward desegregation. One young black girl, Claudette Colvin, was dragged from a bus and arrested after refusing to give up her seat in the middle section of the bus. The group felt they had found their person but later found out that the young girl was pregnant and that would give the government ammunition against them. They would be able to accuse her of being a bad girl any ways. On December 1, 1955, a woman by the name of Rosa Parks would board a bus on her way home and sit in the area where blacks were allowed to sit, as long as no whites were left standing. One white man was left standing after a stop and the bus driver ordered Parks to move. She refused and was later arrested. Nixon and the NAACP now had their person. Rosa Parks was a well-known and respected black woman who worked with the NAACP's youth council. She would be just the person to help get the black community motivated. .
Nixon called to find out why Rosa Parks had been arrested but being black, they wouldn't tell him. Nixon then called a white, Clifford Durr, a former member of the Federal Communications Commission. He called and was told that she had been arrested under the segregation laws so Mr. Nixon raised the bond and signed the paper and got Mrs. Parks out."" Nixon then used Parks case to try for desegregation. Flyers were printed up and word was sent around that blacks should not ride the bus. The next step was to wait and see if they should continue with the boycott. Martin Luther King, Jr. thought that, "if we could get 60 percent cooperation the protest would be a success."" He was happy to see the next day that buses were driving around empty or with no blacks on them.