Sweet Justice (HC)

Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested-- pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a white man take her seat. To protest, the radio urged everyone to stay off city busses for one day: December 5, 1955. Throughout the boycott--at Holt Street Baptist Church meetings led by a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. -- and throughout the struggle for justice, Georgia served up her mouth-watering fried chicken, her spicy collard greens, and her sweet potato pie, eventually selling them to raise money to help the cause.

Written by Mara Rockliff. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. 

Hardcover (English). Recommended for: Ages 4-8 years.