Since the early 1800s, African American women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have made colorful, striking quilts from whatever materials they had, like old clothes and feed sacks. Their quilting traditions were passed down through generations. Susan Goldman Rubin’s The Quilts of Gee’s Bend explores the history and culture behind these quilts and the women who made them. In 2002, some of the quilts were displayed at major museums in Houston and New York, surprising the women and earning praise for their beauty.
