Photo of a MIA Taxi
Yesterday I started talking about the Club from No Where, MLK, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. The boycott lasted 380 days with those who supported it walking and hitching rides. In order to keep riders off the bus the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) had to come up with its own transportation system to get its members to work; many of them maids and cooks for Montgomery’s white establishment. The MIA organized a carpool to shuttle its members to work. This meant raising the funds necessary to purchase a fleet of vehicles and gas for the car pool. Georgia Gilmore and the various members of The Club from Nowhere around the city of Montgomery sold fresh baked goods and the proceeds went to the MIA. The club name allowed them to earn money for the movement without raising the suspicion of white officials and members of the Klan. Their customers including both whites and blacks who purchases of heavenly tasting food at cab stands, barber shops, and beauty salons kept the MIA transportation network rolling. More on the MIA, MLK and food tomorrow. Here is a oatmeal raisin cookie recipe that reminds of what might have been sold to support the bus boycott in 1955: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/oatmeal_raisin_cookies/
Lecture and Book Signing: 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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