Bailing Out

Virginia Durr, a privileged Alabamian spent her entire girlhood never having to wonder for a single moment whether she belonged or not. She was a member of the "Magic Circle" or upper-class white society, a debutante and all that goes with it. She grew up to be the woman who, together with her husband, went down to the police station in Montgomery to bail out Rosa parks on that famous night when the bus boycott began, and nothing in the segregated South was ever the same again. After that, Clifford Durr lost his law practive, and much of white Montgomery stopped speaking to them. Mrs. Durr's autobirgraphy is called Outside the Magic Circle. The Durrs took up themselves the burden of the Son of God, who came to live among us as one outside the magic circle. Entering into the Good Friday Three Hours is to step outside with him for a space, "outside the camp" (Heb. 13:13) where the "best people" never go.