{"product_id":"sweet-justice-book-mara-rockliff-9781524720643","title":"Sweet Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring picture-book biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956, from an award-winning illustrator.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NewYork Public Library \u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Chicago Public Library\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 buses 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Here is the vibrant true story of a hidden figure of the civil rights movement, told in flavorful language by a picture-book master, and stunningly illustrated by a Caldecott Honor recipient and seven-time Coretta Scott King award-winning artist.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744063987985,"sku":"NGR9781524720643","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49804036473105,"sku":"CIN152472064XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50011410989329,"sku":"CIN152472064XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51383695114513,"sku":"NIN9781524720643","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/152472064X.jpg?v=1751118257","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/sweet-justice-buch-mara-rockliff-9781524720643","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}