Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to

explore. Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

By the time she had boarded the bus home in October of 1955, Georgia had already had a very long day.

Tired from work, she dropped her fare in the till, and went to go sit in the segregated back

at the bus. She stopped shorts when the bus driver began to yell at her. He ordered her not to walk

through the white section at the front of the bus. She would need at her. He ordered her not to walk through the white section

at the front of the bus. She would need to get off and re-enter at the back of the bus.

Georgia couldn't believe it. She was already on the bus, wasn't she? But seeing as he wasn't going

to budge and deciding that she would rather get home than fight with a power-tripping driver,

Georgia sighed and

got off the bus. But the moment she stepped foot on the sidewalk, the bus sped off, with her

fare still on board. And it wasn't the first time the Montgomery-Alabama bus system had

discriminated against black riders, and it certainly wouldn't be the last. Two months later,

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing

to give up her seat to a white writer, and when Georgia Gilmore heard that local leaders were

planning a bus boycott, she knew she had to be involved. On December 5th of 1955,

Georgia watched as the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke before a crowd of thousands at the Holt Street

Baptist Church. He proposed that the black community should put together their own form of

transportation in protest, using donated cars and personal vehicles to ferry black people to work

and schools across Montgomery. His idea was met with thunderous applause, Georgia included,

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