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

by Nancy Callahan

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817352473
• ISBN13: 9780817352479
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Fire Ant Books
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.1"