Martha Hawkins Had A Dream Of A Restaurant In A House

By Joseph Allen

When Martha Hawkins was a girl in Montgomery, she loved having the chance to play a role in the civil rights movement.

“I did meals at First Baptist Church. We made sandwiches and chips and took water and met the marchers when they would be coming from Selma,” she said.

Hawkins revered Georgia Gilmore, the Montgomery woman who organized cooks to sell their food to raise money to keep the bus boycott going after Rosa Parks’ arrest in 1955. Gilmore, encouraged by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., opened a restaurant in her home and fed the civil rights movement.

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