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 like King, E. D. Nixon, Ralph Abernathy, and others held strategy meeting. You see Gilmore’s place represented a place free of wire taps that provided white authorities with intelligence on the MIA. White folks knew better than to mess with Gilmore’s place. A large woman, perhaps 300 or more pounds, who moved quick on her feet, Gilmore once got in a fight with a local male white merchant who refused to refund her money after selling one of her children a stale loaf of bed. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) viewed her and her restaurant has essential to the movement. When folks like Bobby Kennedy came to town, MLK would bring them to Gilmore’s for a great meal in a safe space. Here’s a traditional and vegan meat loaf recipe reminiscent of Gilmore’s down home cooking:
Traditional meatloaf recipe: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/classic_meatloaf/
Vegan meat loaf recipe: http://vegetarian.about.com/od/maindishentreerecipes/r/vegmeatloaf.htm
Lecture and Book Signing http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14638-8/hog-and-hominy/excerpt: Frederick Douglass Opie, "Feeding the Revolution," A Discussion of the Foods of the Civil Rights Movement.
| Date: | Sunday January 17, 2010 |
| Time: | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
| Location: | St. Augustine's Episcopal Church |
| Street: | 6 Old Post Rd North |
| City/Town: | Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 |
| Phone: | 914- 271-3501 |
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Driving Directions to St. Augustine's
From the North or South:
Take Rte 9/9A.
Exit at the Croton exit labeled Rte 129.
At the end of the exit ramp, turn right, away from the river.
At the 2nd traffic light (you will be facing a CVS and post office parking lot), turn left onto Rte. 129, Maple Ave.
Turn left at the 1st traffic light onto Old Post Rd So.-- (Kathleen Reidy, Law Office is on the far lefthand corner.)
Go one block to "T" junction: there is a traffic light in the middle of the road.
Turn left onto Grand St.
Go one block to the corner of Grand St. & Old Post Road North.
There we are!
From the Taconic Parkway:
Take the Underhill Rd exit off the Taconic.
Turn West toward Croton-on-Hudson.
Turn Right onto Rte. 129 where Underhill dead-ends at the bottom of a steep hill.
Coming into Croton, there is a "Y" where Grand St. branches to the right off of 129. A sign for Perry Kennedy Real Estate sits in front of a small house that is in the fork of the "Y"
Take the Right fork of the "Y" onto Grand St.
Continue a short few blocks through the center of the village to the corner of Grand St. & Old Post Road North.
There we are!
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