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Black river falls casino bee gees11/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() During the Civil Rights movement in 1966, the Freedom Quilting Bee was established as a way for African-American women from Gee’s Bend and nearby Rehoboth to gain economic independence. ![]() These patterns and piecing styles were passed down over generations, surviving slavery, the antebellum South, and Jim Crow. Yet by piecing together scraps of fabric and clothing, they were creating abstract designs that had never before been expressed on quilts. When enslaved women from the rural, isolated community of Boykin, Alabama-better known as Gee’s Bend-began quilting in the 19th century, it arose from a physical need for warmth rather than a quest to reinvent an art form. ![]()
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