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The Freedom Quilting Bee : Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement

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...

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Autor principal: Callahan, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault), 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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