Sweet justice : Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott / words by Mara Rockliff ; pictures by Caldecott Honor winner R. Gregory Christie.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Random House Studio, [2022]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781524720643
- 152472064X
- 9781524720650
- 1524720658
- Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Gilmore, Georgia, 1920-1990 -- Juvenile literature
- Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 -- Juvenile literature
- African American women civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 NewYork 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.
Includes bibliographical references.
"A picture book biography about Georgia Gilmore, the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956"-- Provided by publisher