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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Callahan, Nancy.
Imprint:	[Place of publication not identified] : University of Alabama Press (Bibliovault), 2014.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.) -- History. Freedom Quilting Bee (Organization : Ala.) Quilting -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century. African American quiltmakers -- Alabama -- History. Civil rights in art. African American quiltmakers. Civil rights in art. Quilting. Alabama. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11237778

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ISBN:	9780817388560 0817388567 9780817352479ü9780817303105
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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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