黑人母亲带女儿到伯明翰买衣服。白人店员挡住女儿,不让她进试衣间试穿,傲慢地说:“此试衣间只有白人才能用,你们只能去储藏室里专供黑人用的试衣间。”可母亲根本不理睬,她冷冰冰地对店员说:“我女儿如果不能进这间试衣间,我就换一家店购衣!”女店员只好让她们进了试衣间。又一次,女儿在一家店里摸帽子而受到白人店员的训斥,这位母亲再次挺身而出:“请不要 Black mother with daughter to Birmingham to buy clothes. White clerk blocking her daughter, let her try into the fitting room, arrogantly said: ”This fitting room only white people can use, you can only go to the store room for black people only dressing room.“ Ignoring her, she said coldly to the clerk: ”If my daughter can not get into this dressing room, I’ll change my clothes!“ The clerk had to let them into the dressing room. Once again, my daughter touches a hat in a store and is reproached by white clerks, and the mother stands up again: ”Please do not