Browder versus Gayle changed relationships of blacks and whites in America and the world.
Yet few people know about the case and even fewer know about the plaintiffs.
—Filmmaker and journalist William Dickerson-Waheed, Rivers of Change
All the boycotts and sit-ins and marches in themselves did not cure the illness of discrimination.
It was the court decisions that did it.
—Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
The Montgomery Advertiser, February 2, 1956, front page news