The Freedom Quilting Bee : Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement

List of Plates/Maps viii Preface ix The Freedom Quilting Bee 1. From Civil Rights to Patchwork Quilts 3(16) 2. Quilt Auctions in New York City 19(12) 3. Gee's Bend: The Culture that Shaped the Quilting Bee 31(14) 4. The Quilting Bee Obtains Professional Help 45(5) 5. Freedom Sparks the "Patchwork Look" 50(18) 6. The Quilting Bee Goes Commercial 68(23) 7. A Factory Comes to the Cornfield 91(14) 8. Church Groups Aid the Quilting Bee 105(9) 9. Freedom's Bread and Butter: The Sears Contract 114(17) 10. Freedom Leads the Co-op Movement 131(14) The Women of the Freedom Quilting Bee Minder Pettway Coleman 145(7) Aolar Carson Mosely 152(8) Mattie Clark Ross 160(10) Mary Boykin Robinson 170(5) China Grove Myles 175(7) Lucy Marie Mingo 182(5) Nettie Pettway Young 187(9) Polly Mooney Bennett 196(11) Mama Willie Abrams 207(7) Estelle Abrams Witherspoon 214(29) Epilogue 243(8) Index 251