Read the excerpts from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.Excerpt 1Jo Ann Robinson was inspired to write to Montgomery Mayor W. A. "Tacky” Gayle, demanding improved conditions for black riders on city buses and mentioning, for the first time, the possibility of a boycott."Mayor Gayle, three-quarters of the riders on these public conveyances are Negroes,” she wrote. "If Negroes did not patronize them they could not possibly operate. . . . There has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city-wide boycott of buses.”Excerpt 2"If we do not do something to stop these arrests, they will continue. The next time it may be you, or your daughter, or mother. This woman’s case will come up on Monday. We are, therefore, asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial.”