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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Christie, R. Gregory
Rockliff, Mara

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ISBN10: 152472064X
ISBN13: 9781524720643
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Published: Jan 11 2022
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.50 Width: 9.30 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
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.

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