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

demonstration, collected out on the
streets. By the time they got ready to
march, there were a thousand people up
and down this three-block area, lining up
all along the sides as spectators,
watching.”
The next day, Walker opened the
newspapers to read the media’s account
of what had happened, and to his
surprise he discovered the reporters had
gotten it all wrong. The papers said
eleven hundred demonstrators had
marched in Birmingham. “I called Dr.
King and said, ‘Dr. King, I’ve got it!’”
Walker recalled. “‘I can’t tell you on the
phone, but I’ve got it!’ So what we did
each day was we dragged out our