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2. Freedom Quilting Bee - Wikipedia

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   The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative with members located throughout the Black Belt of Alabama. [1] Black women created the cooperative in 1966 to generate income for their families. In December of 1965 the Episcopal priest Francis X. Walter was in Wilcox county Alabama, when a quilt on a clothesline outside a small home caught ...

3. Bettye Kimbrell - Wikipedia

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   Bettye Kimbrell (born November 22, 1936) is a master folk artist for quilting, and one of the charter members of the North Jefferson Quilter's Guild in Mount Olive, Alabama. In 1995 Kimbrell won the Alabama Folk Heritage Award, the highest honor for the traditional arts in Alabama. [1]

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

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7. Alabama Chanin - Wikipedia

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   Natalie "Alabama" Chanin was born and raised in Florence, Alabama. At the age of ten, she and her mom moved to Chattanooga. She has a degree in Environmental Design with a focus on industrial and craft-based textiles from North Carolina State University. [3]