How Gee’s Bend And Black Women Quilters Are Symbolizing Family Legacies, Stepping Out Of The History Books And Into Mainstream Fashion
Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil rights activism. But now the Alabama-based quilters are stepping out of the history books and into the mainstream fashion and home-good industries […]