Sweet Justice

<b><b>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. <p/>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY<i> </i>New York Public Library<i> - </i>Chicago Public Library </b></b> <p/>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. <p/>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.