Read the excerpts from "Freedom Walkers” by Russell Freedman.Excerpt 1Parks was escorted to a patrol car and driven to the city jail, where she was booked, fingerprinted, and photographed. Allowed one phone call, she called home. Her mother, who was living with her, answered. "I’m in jail,” Rosa told her. "See if Parks [her husband] will come down here and get me out.”"Did they beat you?” her mother asked."No, I wasn’t beaten, but I am in jail.”Excerpt 2To be effective, a boycott would need the united support of the city’s African American bus riders. Most of them could not afford to own automobiles. How would they get to work? Asking blacks to protest for their rights in the segregated South of the early 1950s was asking them to summon uncommon personal courage—to put their livelihoods and even their physical safety on the line.