the signal to launch demonstrations in Kelly Ingram Park, down the street from the station’s offices. They knew there was no more chance of getting lunch in the park than there was of being served a banana split at the counter at J. J. Newberry’s. But they needed their toothbrushes because, after demonstrating, they would probably be going to jail—possibly for days. The use of Shelley Stewart’s direct quotes in the first paragraph helps readers understand that Stewart and his audience were very much aware that the protestors would be arrested. all of Stewart’s audience did not really understand what was going to happen later in the day. Stewart did not agree with what many of the city’s African-American youths were about to do. Stewart thought this march would finally end segregation and usher in an age of equality.