Pies From Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained The Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito<\/a> is such a fabulous read! This woman and her story is another one I have never heard of before, but oh my goodness is this proof that good food can change things.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe book begins with the arrest of Rosa Parks, and the boycott of the buses by the Black community as a result. Unsurprisingly, the treatment of the Black members of the Montgomery, Alabama, community was systemic and oppressive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Georgia recognized that she would be able to raise funds to buy gas and station wagons (for the carpool system the boycotters developed) by selling baked goods. The orders got to be too much for just her to handle, so she recruited other women to help. To protect everyone’s safety (because anyone found to be helping the boycott could lose their jobs), she insisted the delicacies came “from nowhere.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
She befriended the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,<\/a> and he held meetings in her home, and encouraged her to go into business for herself after she lost her job testifying about her awful treatment by the Montgomery bus drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe back of the book has her pound cake recipe, and the one cake features a pound of butter and two pounds of sugar, it’s no wonder it was a popular item.\u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.15.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
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