Answer to Question #314897 in English for Elliana Marie

Question

What details support the idea that Georgia Gilmore's cooking changed lives?

Answer 1

Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 7, 1990) was an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising effort selling food at boycott mass meetings.

Georgia Gilmore's cooking helped fund an alternative system of transportation that arose for the city's African-Americans during the boycott. In February 1956, a Montgomery County grand jury indicted King and dozens of other boycott leaders for unlawful conspiracy. Gilmore was among those who testified at King's trial. It explains how Gilmore was able to provide women with a safe way to contribute to the Civil Rights Movement. Georgia Gilmore's act of kindness of cooking and selling for the civil rights movement helped in the bus boycott, which helped the success of the movement.