名人教你讲英文：A great victory 伟大胜利

名人教英文：a great victory 伟大胜利

when coretta and martin luther king jr saw the first bus coming down the street, they shouted with excitement. it was empty. it was the same all over montgomery. black people carpooled (共乘) or walked. the bus boycott was a huge success.

rosa parks was convicted (被判有罪) and fined ten dollars. the conviction would be appealed (上诉). maybe it would go all the way to the federal courts. hopes were high that bus segregation could be ended and called unconstitutional. king and the other members of the montgomery improvement association (mia) made some demands as conditions to end the boycott. black drivers had to be hired where the riders were mostly african american. seating on the bus had to be first come, first served (先到先得). black passengers could not be forced to give up their seats to someone who boarded the bus later. finally, many white bus drivers were treating their black passengers rudely. black riders wanted to be treated with the same courtesy (以礼相待) that the whites enjoyed.

many white people in montgomery blamed king for the bus boycott. the bus company was losing money. white businesses in town were losing their many black customers. then, king was driving thirty miles per hour in a twenty-five miles per hour zone. the police stopped him. instead of just giving him a ticket, the police threw him into jail. many protested around the jail, and king was freed. but the harassment (骚扰) continued. every day, hate mail came to the parsonage (牧师公寓). coretta king was worried about the safety of their baby. she dreaded (惧怕) the ringing of the phone because so many of the calls were threats.