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African American quilting cooperative
African American textile art
art
Author_Nancy Callahan
black culture
Black women artists Alabama
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Civil rights era crafts
civil rights movement
Civil Rights Movement and folk art
crafts
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fabric arts
folk art
Folk art and civil rights history
Freedom Quilting Bee history
Gee's Bend quilters
handicrafts
Nancy Callahan quilting book
quilting
Quilting and cultural heritage
Quilting and economic independence
Quilting and social justice
Quilting as activism
Quilting as community building
Quilting bee legacy
Quilting cooperatives in the South
quilts
resistance
Rural Alabama civil rights
rural america
sewing
Southern Black women's history
southern culture
traditional art
University of Alabama Press quilting books
upcycling
Women's empowerment through art
Product details
- ISBN 9780817352479
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 169 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 17 Apr 2005
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 - same art style then fashionable in New York City and other cultural centers. An idea was born and within weeks took on life, in the form of the Freedom Quilting Bee a handcraft cooperative of black women artisans who would become acclaimed throughout the nation.
