Read the excerpt from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.In 1950, she [Robinson] was elected president of the WPC. Under her leadership, segregated seating on public buses became the group’s most pressing issue. Joined by other black community leaders, Robinson and the women of the WPC met several times with Montgomery city commissioners and, later, with bus company officials. Their demands were modest. They simply asked for "better seating arrangements.” The word integration was never mentioned. "To admit that black Americans were seeking to integrate would have been too much,” Robinson said later.