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

The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend - stitching justice, one quilt at a time.

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...