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Fanny Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, people like that who had made contributions, who I thought people should know about. I don't have the brochure. They're all people who people should know about.

Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks, yes. And when it came out, it was very handsome. We decided to do a forty-eight-page study guide. We got people to work on the study guide to go with the posters. We wanted to reach not only our members in the school, a broader audience. So I worked out -- I went to the MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] and got them to look at the posters, and they agreed they would put them up in the subway.

The posters had photographs of the subjects, but also quotations from them.

Yes, short quotations, very good brief quotations, but very provocative and informative, like in two sentences. So they said, “We'll put them up if you will pay for the cost of hanging them in the one [unclear].” So I said I would, and I called unions and I got money to support it.

This is in the subways.

In the subways. They go up in the subways.

This is in the stations as well as in the trains?

In the trains. The area in the trains that are eye-level, not atop. On every train there was a different one. You can't miss it. You know, you're standing, you have to see it. So people saw it, and we began to get requests.

I had made a mistake. At that time Bread and Roses was coming through the switchboard of 1199. We didn't have our own phone. So I just put on it, “For information, contact Bread and Roses,” no phone number.

That's what people saw in the subway.

That's what people saw in the subway. And suddenly I get calls from the Bread and Roses Catering Shop. People had seen -- they looked it up, and the only thing they saw listed was the Bread and Roses Catering Shop in the Village, and they called about the posters. After a couple of weeks, the owner of the catering shop -- outside of the fact that they had Bread and Roses Catering Shop, she knew what