Georgia Gilmore adjusts her hat for photographers in 1956 during the bus boycott trial of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala

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Georgia Gilmore in her kitchen making a box lunch

(Mark Wallhemer / CC BY-SA 4.0)

Georgia:

Georgia Gilmore and the Club From Nowhere

Episode sources:

1. “Interview with Georgia Gilmore, 1985” (Washington University Library)

2. “Overlooked No More: Georgia Gilmore, Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott” by Klancy Miller (The New York Times, July 31, 2019)

3. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin

4. “The Club from Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights” by The Kitchen Sisters and Jamie York (NPR, March 4, 2005)

5. “How Automobiles Helped Power the Civil Rights Movement” by Erin Blakemore (Smithsonian Magazine, February 28, 2020)

6. “MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church” (The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute)

7. “Georgia Gilmore” (The Encyclopedia of Alabama)

8. “Montgomery Improvement Association” (The Encyclopedia of Alabama)

9. “Dr. Martin Luther King: Montgomery Bus Boycott speech“ (University of Texas at Arlington)

10. “Georgia Gilmore” (Wikipedia)

11. “Montgomery Bus Boycott” (Wikipedia)

12. “Claudette Colvin” (Wikipedia)

Karen:

The Rochambelles

Episode sources:

1. “Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the World War II Front” by Ellen Hampton

2. “WW2 US Army Ambulances and Medical-Related Vehicles”

3. “Behind the Wheel and on the Front Line: Women Ambulance Drivers in WWII” by Nancy Mavroudi (Museum of the Order of St. John)

4. “The Great War” (The University of Michigan)

5. “The Rochambelles” by Stew Ross (Stew Ross Discovers) 2023

6. “History of Emergency Medical Services” (inHealth Integrated Care)

7. “The Rochambelles – Women in the French Second Armored Division” WW2TV

8. “End of the war, beginning of new roles for women” (French American Cultural Foundation)

9. “The Rochambelles” (Wikipedia)

10. “Women Serve Heroically in French Ambulance Unit” by Mike Levin (The Columbia Record) 1945

11. “Jacques-Philippe LeClerc” (Britannica)

12. “Free French” (Britannica)

The Rochambelles in the Jardin de Bagatelle

Anne-Marie Davion and Anne Hastings work on their ambulances