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Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Mara Rockliff
Illustrator: R. Gregory Christie
Ages: 6+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Random House Studio/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-5247-2064-3
Keywords: African-Americans, Civil Rights, Protests, Activism, Cooking
An early civil rights hero's legendary cooking sustained both the celebrated and the unsung champions of the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott. Painterly artwork.