on their way back a white bus driver insisted that the two surrender their seats to newly boarding white riders. M.L. resisted at first, but his teacher finally encouraged him to get up, and the young man had to stand for several hours as the bus made its way to Atlanta. “It was,” King recalled twenty years later, “the angriest I have ever been in my life.”21 That was the most traumatic encounter with segregation that young King suffered.
