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Pork chops, Dr. King and Georgia Gilmore s18 e 8


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This episode is a gathering of research I did on civil rights activist Georgia Gilmore.

Did you know that 2 months before Rosa Park's arrest, a bus driver told Mrs. Gilmore to leave the bus after paying her fair? Humiliated and disrespected!

  • Where did Mrs. Gilmore meet Dr. Martin Luther King?
  • Lima beans, fried chicken, cakes – how did food help fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
  • How did the Boycott last 381 days?

References for your research

The New York Times Overlooked No More Georgia Gilmore

Today Show -Chef-Nadine Nelson -Pies and the Civil Rights Movement 

“What MLK did was wonderful, but the women were running the operations,” said chef Nadine Nelson.

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