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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained The Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito and Laura Freeman (Illustrator)
Description:
This stunning picture book looks into the life of Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of history who played a critical role in the civil rights movement and used her passion for baking to help the Montgomery Bus Boycott achieve its goal.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...