Known as a kind and motherly woman with incredible cooking skills, Gilmore had a bold personality and resisted the racial injustices common in Alabama during the 1950s.

A group of civic leaders and ministers formed the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to help guide the boycott.

Gilmore, who had already refused to use the buses in Montgomery, heard of the arrest on the news and announcements of the first MIA mass meeting to be held at Holt Street Baptist church on the evening of the boycott.

Gilmore and her friends started a fundraising group called the Club from Nowhere to help support the operations of the boycott and the MIA.

Georgia Gilmore, along with others testified about the discrimination they faced on city buses State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr.

Though not a licensed restaurant, Gilmore's place became a spot where Dr. King and other members of the MIA could go to eat, congregate, and strategize.

The women kept selling sandwiches at mass meetings until they officially formed a fundraising group called the Club from Nowhere.

[7] The success of this venture led Gilmore and her friends to produce entire meals, including chicken dinners, cakes, and pies to sell to the boycotters.

The women sold on the east and west side of Montgomery, and had white clientele that knowingly and unknowingly bought food from them.

"[8] In a 1986 interview, Gilmore credited African-American women with being a driving force behind the boycott's success, saying, "you see they were maids, cooks.

Gilmore won the second case in 1974 on the basis that taxpayer’s dollars were being used to fund the use of these public spaces by white-only private school’s athletic programs.