Georgia Gilmore's Kitchen

A large pot of food sits on the stove in the Montgomery kitchen of civil rights activist Georgia Gilmore in this image by photojournalist Jim Peppler. Philadelphia native Peppler was a staff photographer of the Southern Courier newspaper from 1965-1968 and documented many important events in the civil rights movement.

Pot of food cooking on a stovetop beside a window in a black-and-white photograph.
Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Collection
Pot of food cooking on a stovetop beside a window in a black-and-white photograph.