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1 online resource |
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List of Plates/Maps; Preface; The Freedom Quilting Bee; 1. From Civil Rights to Patchwork Quilts; 2. Quilt Auctions in New York City; 3. Gee's Bend: The Culture that Shaped the Quilting Bee; 4. The Quilting Bee Obtains Professional Help; 5. Freedom Sparks the Patchwork Look -- 6. The Quilting Bee Goes Commercial; 7. A Factory Comes to the Cornfield; 8. Church Groups Aid the Quilting Bee; 9. Freedom's Bread and Butter: The Sears Contract; 10. Freedom Leads the Co-op Movement; The Women of the Freedom Quilting Bee; Minder Pettway Coleman; Aolar Carson Mosely; Mattie Clark Ross |
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Mary Boykin RobinsonChina Grove Myles; Lucy Marie Mingo; Nettie Pettway Young; Polly Mooney Bennett; Mama Willie Abrams; Estelle Abrams Witherspoon; Epilogue; Index; Color Plates; 1. Star of Bethlehem, circa 1968; 2. Crazy Quilt, 1967; 3. (eight-pointed star pattern), 1967; 4. Chestnut Bud, 1966; 5. ""The Largest Quilt in the World, "" 1969; 6. Coat of Many Colors, 1981; 7. (broken star pattern), circa 1970; 8. China Grove Myles and Pine Burr, 1976; Maps; Wilcox, Lowndes, and Dallas counties in the Alabama Black Belt; Gee's Bend and environs along the Alabama River |
| Summary |
The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend. In December of 1965, the year of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, a white Episcopal priest driving through a desperately poor, primarily black section of Wilcox County found himself at a great bend of the Alabama River. He noticed a cabin clothesline from which were hanging three magnificent quilts unlike any he had ever seen. They were of strong, bold colors in original, op-art patterns-the same art style then fashionable in New York City and other cultural centers. An idea was born and within weeks took on life |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.) -- History
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Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.) fast |
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Quilting -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
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African American quiltmakers -- Alabama -- History
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Civil rights in art.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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African American quiltmakers
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Civil rights in art
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Quilting
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Alabama
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817388560 |
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0817388567 |
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