Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

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.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Studio
Published: 01/11/2022
ISBN: 9781524720643
Pages: 40
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 11.10h x 9.30w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Booklist 11/01/2021 pg. 56
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2021
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2021
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2022 pg. 137