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Author | : Dee Romito |
Publisher | : little bee books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-11-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781499807202 |
This stunning picture book looks into the life of Georgia Gilmore, a hidden figure of history who played a critical role in the civil rights movement and used her passion for baking to help the Montgomery Bus Boycott achieve its goal. Georgia decided to help the best way she knew how. She worked together with a group of women and together they purchased the supplies they needed-bread, lettuce, and chickens. And off they went to cook. The women brought food to the mass meetings that followed at the church. They sold sandwiches. They sold dinners in their neighborhoods. As the boycotters walked and walked, Georgia cooked and cooked. Georgia Gilmore was a cook at the National Lunch Company in Montgomery, Alabama. When the bus boycotts broke out in Montgomery after Rosa Parks was arrested, Georgia knew just what to do. She organized a group of women who cooked and baked to fund-raise for gas and cars to help sustain the boycott. Called the Club from Nowhere, Georgia was the only person who knew who baked and bought the food, and she said the money came from "nowhere" to anyone who asked. When Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for his role in the boycott, Georgia testified on his behalf, and her home became a meeting place for civil rights leaders. This picture book highlights a hidden figure of the civil rights movement who fueled the bus boycotts and demonstrated that one person can make a real change in her community and beyond. It also includes one of her delicious recipes for kids to try with the help of their parents!
Author | : Ronnie A. Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781524930554 |
Author | : Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0060821183 |
This story begins with shoes. This story is all for true. This story walks. And walks. And walks. To the blues. Rosa Parks took a stand by keeping her seat on the bus. When she was arrested for it, her supporters protested by refusing to ride. Soon a community of thousands was coming together to help one another get where they needed to go. Some started taxis, some rode bikes, but they all walked and walked. With dogged feet. With dog-tired feet. With boycott feet. With boycott blues. And, after 382 days of walking, they walked Jim Crow right out of town. . . . Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney present a poignant, blues-infused tribute to the men and women of the Montgomery bus boycott, who refused to give up until they got justice.
Author | : Blair L. M. Kelley |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807895814 |
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. Kelley tells the stories of the brave but little-known men and women who faced down the violence of lynching and urban race riots to contest segregation. Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance.
Author | : Alan Pierce |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 161714360X |
Discusses defining moments in American history.
Author | : Matthew F. Delmont |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0520284259 |
"Busing, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court-ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, [this book posits that] school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, and how antibusing parents and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Jeff Hay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780737757958 |
This book opens with background information on the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott, presents the controversies surrounding the event, and includes narratives from people who witnessed or participated in the event.
Author | : Robert Doyle Bullard |
Publisher | : South End Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Local transit |
ISBN | : 9780896087040 |
Author | : Ineke van Kessel |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813918686 |
The 1980s in South Africa were marked by protest, violent confrontation, and international sanctions. Internally, the country saw a bewildering growth of grassroots organizations--including trade unions, civic associations in the black townships, student and other youth organizations, church-based groups, and women's movements--many of which operated under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front (UDF). "Beyond Our Wildest Dreams" explores the often conflicted relationship between the UDF's large-scale resistance to apartheid and its everyday struggles at the local level. In hindsight, the UDF can be seen as a transitional front, preparing the ground for leaders of the liberation movement to return from exile or prison and take over power. But the founding fathers of the UDF initially had far more modest ambitions. Interviews with Cachalia and other leading personalities in the UDF examine the organization's workings at the national level, while stories of ordinary people, collected by the author, illuminate the grassroots activism so important to the UDF's success. Even in South Africa, writes Ineke van Kessel, who covered the anti-apartheid movement as a journalist, resistance was not the obvious option for ordinary citizens. Van Kessel shows how these people were mobilized into forming a radical social movement that developed a highly flexible and innovative form of resistance that ultimately ended apartheid. --From publisher's description.
Author | : Jo Ann Gibson Robinson |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780870495274 |
Explains how Robinson and the Women's Political Caucus started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1954