Azbell held up a flier announcing a boycott of city buses on Monday-the same day Rosa Parks was scheduled to be tried for violating an ordinance calling for segregated seating.“Joe showed the flier to me and said, ‘This is going to be in the paper tomorrow,'” Ingram recalled. “Sometime later, Dr. Martin Luther King told me that ‘Joe and the Advertiser printing that on the front page on Sunday morning was a greater impetus for the success of the boycott than anything before.'”
