![]() Gilmore’s dining room became an interracial meeting space connecting people involved in the movement. She awoke at four in the morning and, in her small kitchen, made stuffed pork chops, meat loaf, barbecued ribs, fried fish, spaghetti in meat sauce, collard greens and black-eyed peas, corn muffins, bread pudding, and sweet potato pies. When Gilmore lost her job anyway, Martin Luther King encouraged her to open a restaurant out of her home. They raised hundreds of dollars and presented it at the Monday night mass meetings. ![]() As a way to avoid retaliation, they called themselves the Club from Nowhere-very few people knew who the members were or where they lived. During the boycott, she organized a clandestine network of maids to make sandwiches, cook chicken dinners, and bake pies and cakes and sell them door to door. Georgia Gilmore was a cook, a midwife, a domestic worker, and a single mother of six who lived in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s. She was an organizer and a fundraiser for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a warrior for racial justice. ![]()
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