The Freedom Quilting Bee [electronic resource] : Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement / Nancy Callahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callahan, Nancy.

Series:

Alabama Fire Ant

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights in art.

African American quiltmakers--Alabama--History.

African American quiltmakers.

Quilting--Alabama--History--20th century.

Quilting.

Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.)--History.

Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1987.

Language Note:

English

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, in the form

Contents:

Contents; List of Plates/Maps; Preface; The Freedom Quilting Bee; Maps; Wilcox, Lowndes, and Dallas counties in the Alabama Black Belt; 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; Gee''s Bend and environs along the Alabama River; 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; Color Plates

1. Star of Bethlehem, circa 19682. 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; 10. Freedom Leads the Co-op Movement; The Women of the Freedom Quilting Bee; Minder Pettway Coleman; Aolar Carson Mosely; Mattie Clark Ross; Mary Boykin Robinson; China Grove Myles; Lucy Marie Mingo; Nettie Pettway Young; Polly Mooney Bennett; Mama Willie Abrams; Estelle Abrams Witherspoon; Epilogue; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8856-7

OCLC:

567964966