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Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) [1] was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events.
A new monument for famous quilter Harriet Powers will be presented Saturday at Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery in Athens. New grave marker to honor preeminent Athens quilter and former slave Skip to main ...
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Helen Dortch Longstreet (née, Dortch; April 20, 1863 – May 3, 1962), [1] known as the "Fighting Lady", was an American social advocate, librarian, and newspaper woman serving as reporter, editor, publisher, and business manager.
Lugenia Burns Hope (February 19, 1871 – August 14, 1947), was a social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.
Frances Milton Trollope, also known as Fanny Trollope (10 March 1779 – 6 October 1863), was an English novelist who wrote as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope.Her book, Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), observations from a trip to the United States, is the best known.
Candy Mossler was represented by a pair of Houston's best defense attorneys, Clyde Woody and Marian Rosen. [2] Melvin Powers was defended by top-ranked Houston defense lawyers Percy Foreman and William F Walsh, [2] [3] the former a high-profile attorney who years later defended James Earl Ray, the man convicted for the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.