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2. Quilts of Gee's Bend - Wikipedia

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   A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.

3. Freedom Quilting Bee - Wikipedia

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   Mrs. Coleman was born in Wilcox county in October 1903, and lived just one mile from the famous Gee’s Bend in the Quilting Bee’s hay day. Minder learned to quilt as a small child, and soon realized she had a knack for the art. Mrs. Coleman was a farmer her whole life, and also spent some years working at a cloth factory, and later an okra factory.

4. Avondale Mills - Wikipedia

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   The mills refined the plentiful cotton from Alabama fields and, at its peak, devoured 20% of the entire state of Alabama's cotton production. The owners and operators of Avondale Mills were noted not only for progressive stances with regards to the overall well-being of their workers, but also for conditions of child labor that, while common at ...

5. Loretta Pettway - Wikipedia

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   Loretta Pettway (born 1942) is an American artist and quilt maker of the Gee's Bend Collective from Boykin, Alabama. Her quilts are known for their bold and improvisational style. [1] In 2006 her quilts "Roman Stripes" variation [2] and Medallion [3] appeared on two US Postal service stamps as part of a series commemorating Gee's bend quilters. [4]

6. Bettye Kimbrell - Wikipedia

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   She married Calvin Kimbrell and moved to Mount Olive, Alabama. [6] In the 1960s a friend gave her name to Loveman's Department Store in Birmingham for directing customers to get their quilts finished. Finishing all different types and designs of quilts got Kimbrell interested in quilting as an art and not just as a utilitarian need. [1]

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