Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 7, 1990) was an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising effort selling food at boycott mass meetings. Her grass-roots activism helped to sustain the long boycott and inspired similar groups to begin raising money.
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5 February 1920
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Died |
7 March 1990 (aged 70)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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