Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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 organize…

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