as a helper of the tailor who is colored. this thing called segregation here is complete and solid pattern as a way of life." -to make money on the side, rosa parks is tailoring for one of montgomery's few white civil rights activist families, clifford and virginia durr. parks and virginia began a friendship. -"she wanted to be part of our efforts to end segregation, even though that meant being ostracized and made to suffer." -durr is affiliated with highlander folk school. -the school was a new beginning, a link between the towns and the mountain. myles horton was its founder. -if we could demonstrate by the way we lived and what we believed and the way we treated people, that there was a possibility of, in this situation, blacks and whites, working things out. we hoped that idea would have some small influence.