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

they had been saying, ‘Turn the water
hose on. Turn the water hose on.’ And
Bull Connor, then somebody threw a
brick, and he started turning them on,
see. So they just danced and played in
the hose spray. This famous picture of
them holding hands, it was just a frolic
of them trying to stand up [unintelligible]
and some of them were getting knocked
down by the hose. They’d get up and run
back and it would slide them along the
pavement. Then they began bringing the
hose up from the other corner, and
instead of Negroes [unintelligible] they
ran to the hose. It was a, it was a holiday
for them. And this went on for a couple
of hours. It was a joke, really. All in