Read the excerpt from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.Robinson joined the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, attended by many Alabama State professors. That’s when she became a member of the Women’s Political Council, which had been founded three years earlier when the local League of Women Voters refused to accept blacks. "We were ‘woman power,’ organized to cope with any injustice, no matter what,” she recalled. "I had suffered the most humiliating experience of my life when that bus driver had ordered me off the fifth-row seat from the front and threatened to strike me when I did not move fast enough. Thus, I was ready to take over the WPC when the time came.”