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Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott

Title
Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott / by Dee Romito ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
Author
Romito, Dee
Publication
New York, NY : little bee books, [2018]

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Additional Authors
Freeman, Laura (Illustrator)
Description
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
  • "Georgia decided to help the best way she knew how. She worked together with a group of women and together they purchased the supplies they needed--bread, lettuce, and chickens. And off they went to cook. The women brought food to the mass meetings that followed at the church. They sold sandwiches. They sold dinners in their neighborhoods. As the boycotters walked and walked, Georgia cooked and cooked. 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 knew just what to do. She 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 for civil rights leaders. This picture book highlights a hidden figure of the civil rights movement who fueled the bus boycotts and demonstrated that one person can make a real change in her community and beyond"--
  • 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. This picture book highlights a hidden figure of the civil rights movement who fueled the bus boycotts and demonstrated that one person can make a real change in her community and beyond
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • History.
  • Juvenile works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Audience (note)
  • K to Grade 3.
Call Number
Sc F 19-223
ISBN
  • 9781499807202
  • 1499807201
LCCN
2017057228
OCLC
1022725643
Author
Romito, Dee, author.
Title
Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott / by Dee Romito ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
Publisher
New York, NY : little bee books, [2018]
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience
K to Grade 3.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator.
Research Call Number
Sc F 19-223
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