PIES FROM NOWHERE: How Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott

Dee Romito, Laura Freeman

Biography

Georgia Gilmore was a cook at the National Lunch Company in Montgomery, Alabama. When the bus boycotts broke out in Montgomery after Rosa Parks was arrested, Georgia organized a group of women who cooked and baked to fund-raise for gas and cars to help sustain the boycott. Called the Club from Nowhere, Georgia was the only person who knew who baked and bought the food, and she said the money came from "nowhere" to anyone who asked. When Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for his role in the boycott, Georgia testified on his behalf, and her home became a meeting place civil rights movement.

Book Info

Publisher

little bee books

Publishing date

Nov 06, 2018

Genre

Biography

EAN/UPC or ISBN

1499807201

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