Georgia Gilmore

Georgia Gilmore was a Montgomery, Alabama cook who, during the 1955–1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized an underground catering operation she called the Club from Nowhere. Selling pound cakes, sweet potato pies, and full plates of fried chicken and greens out of her home, she generated the steady cash that kept the boycott's carpool system running.

She fed a movement from her kitchen. After being fired from her restaurant job for testifying on behalf of Dr. King, she ran her own kitchen out of her house, where King, John Lewis, Robert Kennedy, and the rest of the movement leadership ate. Gilmore is the proof that the Black Southern kitchen was a political institution.