Read the excerpt from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.Parks made extra money by taking in sewing on the side. She had done some work for Virginia Durr, wife of attorney Clifford Durr, and the two women became friends. The Durrs, a white couple, were known in Montgomery as outspoken equal rights activists. They thought so highly of Parks’s civic activities that during the summer of 1955 they helped arrange a week’s stay for Rosa at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, which held interracial workshops on how to promote integration. "That was the first time in my life I had lived in an atmosphere of complete equality with members of the other race,” Parks said later. "I did enjoy going up there.”