African American Quilts
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| Kristen |  | An appliqued and pieced quilt from cotton by Harriet Powers depicting The Creation of the Animals now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (page 23 of America's Traditional Crafts)
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| Robert |  | African American quilt made somewhere in the Savannah area (Anne Yentsch's personal collection)
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| Rebekka |  | By an unknown African American quilter about 1910 somewhere in the South in a triangles and rectangles pattern. Note the small, colored ties which punctuate the pattern (page 38 of America's Traditional Crafts)
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| Mahmud |  | One of the first quilts made in 1966 by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Quilting Bee of Gees Bend, Alabama pictured in the August 1968 issue of Fortune magazine. This group was of the first quilt cooperatives formed in the rural South (page 143 of "Quilt Cottage Industries" in Quilt Making in America
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| Fatima |  | Two quilts made by Georgia Patton of Kansas City, Kansas (page 172 of Kansas Quilts and Quilters
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