Georgia Gilmore
Georgia Gilmore cooked the Montgomery Bus Boycott into existence. A cafeteria cook fired after she testified at Dr. King's 1956 trial, she gathered a group of Black women she called the Club from Nowhere — because, as she said, the money came from "nowhere, nobody knows." They sold pound cakes, fried chicken, sweet potato pies, and sandwiches at beauty parlours, mass meetings, and laundromats, raising roughly $125 to $200 every week — tens of thousands of dollars over the 381-day boycott — to keep the carpool system running. King paid for her kitchen to be converted into a safe-haven restaurant where he, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson all broke bread. In 1959 she was the named plaintiff in Gilmore v. City of Montgomery, which desegregated the city's public parks. She died in 1990 while cooking for the 25th-anniversary march from Selma.
“If I can't fight on the front line, I'll fight from the kitchen.”
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Georgia Gilmore
Georgia Gilmore cooked the Montgomery Bus Boycott into existence. A cafeteria cook fired after she testified at Dr. King's 1956 trial, she gathered a group of Black women she called the Club from Nowhere — because, as she said, the money came from "nowhere, nobody knows." They sold pound cakes, fried chicken, sweet potato pies, and sandwiches at beauty parlours, mass meetings, and laundromats, raising roughly $125 to $200 every week — tens of thousands of dollars over the 381-day boycott — to keep the carpool system running. King paid for her kitchen to be converted into a safe-haven restaurant where he, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson all broke bread. In 1959 she was the named plaintiff in Gilmore v. City of Montgomery, which desegregated the city's public parks. She died in 1990 while cooking for the 25th-anniversary march from Selma.
“If I can't fight on the front line, I'll fight from the kitchen.”
OUR FREEDOM. OUR FUTURE.
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