Georgia Gilmore's Place
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
During the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, Georgia Gilmore, founder of the The Club from Nowhere, (TCN), fed members of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) who spent extra time walking to work and thus had little time for cooking. For slightly above cost MIA members could eat in or take a plate home of “meatloaf with cream potatoes, cheese and macaroni, rutabagas, peas with okra, lettuce and tomato, apple pie and iced tea,” recalls Gilmore. She and the TCN literally feed the MIA’s 1955 revolution. In addition, Gilmore’s makeshift restaurant served as a critical space where MIA leaders held strategy meeting.
