that all passengers would be moving to a different bus, but that woman who refused to change her seat, referring to Ms. Keys, would not be allowed to board the new bus and would not be allowed to continue the trip. (8) Shortly thereafter, two police officers arrived at the bus terminal, took Sarah by the arms into a patrol car and drove her to the Roanoke Rapids police station. Because she refused to be subjected to unjust discrimination and prejudice, she was forced to stay in jail overnight and was fined $25.00 before her release. (9) Once Sarah arrived home and informed her family of the injustice she endured, her father encouraged her to seek legal action. (10) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) referred the family to attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree, a Captain in the Women’s Army Corps, who brought her case before the ICC. The ICC meeting in the District of Columbia took place on May 12, 1954. It was decided by only one member of the ICC. (11) New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., agreed it was not fair that the other 10 members of the ICC were not involved in the decision. Congressman Powell helped persuade the ICC to reconsider its decision. (12) After the Supreme Court decision on Brown v. Board of Education on May 17, 1954, and with the support of Department of Justice Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the ICC reached a new decision. A majority of the ICC members had decided that it was wrong for people on State-to-State trips to be forced to sit in certain seats on a bus because of the color of their skin and that it was against the law. (13) The ICC decision on November 25, 1955, went further than the Supreme Court’s ruling in 1946 which had outlawed only unfair laws that a State might make, not rules that a bus company might make. (14) In Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, the ICC ruled in favor of Keys Evans. In their decision, the Commission found the Interstate Commerce Act forbids segregation as the practice subjects passengers to unjust