Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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An inspiring picture-book biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956, from an award-winning illustrator.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY New York Public Library • Chicago Public Library
Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested--pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a white man take her seat. To protest, the radio urged everyone to stay off city buses for one day: December 5, 1955. Throughout the boycott--at Holt Street Baptist Church meetings led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr.--and throughout the struggle for justice, Georgia served up her mouth-watering fried chicken, her spicy collard greens, and her sweet potato pie, eventually selling them to raise money to help the cause.
Here is the vibrant true story of a hidden figure of the civil rights movement, told in flavorful language by a picture-book master, and stunningly illustrated by a Caldecott Honor recipient and seven-time Coretta Scott King award-winning artist.
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
By Mara Rockliff
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY New York Public Library • Chicago Public Library
Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested--pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a white man take her seat. To protest, the radio urged everyone to stay off city buses for one day: December 5, 1955. Throughout the boycott--at Holt Street Baptist Church meetings led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr.--and throughout the struggle for justice, Georgia served up her mouth-watering fried chicken, her spicy collard greens, and her sweet potato pie, eventually selling them to raise money to help the cause.
Here is the vibrant true story of a hidden figure of the civil rights movement, told in flavorful language by a picture-book master, and stunningly illustrated by a Caldecott Honor recipient and seven-time Coretta Scott King award-winning artist.
ISBN
9781524720643
Pages
40 pages
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
Jan 11, 2022
Language
en
Cover type
Hardcover
Book details
- Authors
- Mara Rockliff
- ISBN
- 9781524720643
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Published
- Jan 11, 2022
- Publication year
- 2022
- Pages
- 40
- Dimensions
- 11.37 in × 0.4 in × 9.44 in
- Language
- en
- Categories
- Juvenile NonfictionBiography & AutobiographyHistoricalPeople & PlacesUnited StatesAfrican American & BlackHistory20th Century