Pies from Nowhere

Georgia Gilmore was well known in her black community of the 1950s as a great cook. When the bus boycott began in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, Georgia decided to help the boycott by selling baked goods and foods to fund-raise. She and the other bakers were known as the Club from Nowhere.

Later, many of the people involved in the boycott were arrested. Georgia was asked to testify in court again one of the bus drivers who took her money, and sent her around to board at the back of the bus and drove away before she could get on board. When the company she worked for learned she was part of the boycott, she was fired.

Martin Luther King Jr. encouraged her to start her own business. And she did so. She cooked for others and became very successful.

An inspiring story of strength in community.