generate income, some of the Bee's quilts were displayed in the Smithsonian Institution. The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members...
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communities met in Camden’s Antioch Baptist Church to found the Freedom Quilting Bee. The Bee, one of the few Black women’s cooperatives in the United States...
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Lucy Mingo (category Gee's Bend quilters)
American quilt maker and member of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama. She was an early member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, which...
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foundation Shadow or echo quilting – Hawaiian quilting, where quilting is done around an appliquéd piece on the quilt top, then the quilting is echoed again and...
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"Freedom Quilting Bee | Encyclopedia of Alabama". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2016-11-21. Callahan, Nancy (2005-04-17). The Freedom Quilting Bee:...
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Aolar Mosely (category Gee's Bend quilters)
Carson family. Her mother was very active in the quilting community and would often host quilting bees at their home.As a small child, Aolar along with...
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Estelle Witherspoon (category Gee's Bend quilters)
founding member and longtime manager of the Freedom Quilting Bee. She is also associated with the Gee's Bend quilting group, alongside her mother, Willie "Ma...
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Addie Pearl Nicholson (category Gee's Bend quilters)
quilting collective. She was the secretary of the Freedom Quilting Bee when it was incorporated in 1966, and then served as the cook for the Freedom Quilting...
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Willie Abrams (category Gee's Bend quilters)
the Freedom Quilting Bee, along with her daughter Estelle Witherspoon, and is associated with the Gee's Bend quilters. Some of “Ma” Willie’s quilts are...
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Lucy Mooney (category Gee's Bend quilters)
the Gee's Bend quilting collective and worked for the Freedom Quilting Bee. Despite losing an arm before she began working at the Bee, she was an accomplished...
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