A bus on the street.

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Culinary Arts

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Activist, Social Movement

Georgia Gilmore and the Club From Nowhere

Montgomery, Alabama | 1956

Gilmore became an activist when she launched the Club From Nowhere, a clandestine women’s group that prepared and sold meals to fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The revenue sustained the complex carpool system that replaced segregated transit during the 381-day action.

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