David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

second stage was a boycott of downtown
businesses, to put financial pressure on
the white business community to
reconsider their practices toward their
black customers. (In department stores,
for example, blacks could not use the
washrooms or the changing rooms, for
fear that a surface or an item of clothing
once touched by a black person would
then touch a white person.) Act three
was a series of mass marches to back up
the boycott and fill up the jails—because
once Connor ran out of cells he could no
longer make the civil rights problem go
away simply by arresting the protesters.
He would have to deal with them
directly.
Project C was a high-stakes