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"Rosa Parks II" Quilt by Yvonne Wells, 2006
Wells, Yvonne2006
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Rosa Parks' December 1, 1955 refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus led to such successful public action that many consider her act to be the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. Yvonne Wells, a self-taught artist and retired schoolteacher, created this pictorial quilt without using patterns or templates.
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- Title: "Rosa Parks II" Quilt by Yvonne Wells, 2006
- Creator: Wells, Yvonne
- Date Created: 2006
- Location: United States, Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States, Alabama, Montgomery
- Subject Keywords: Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956, Pictorial quilts, Commemorative quilts, Quilts, Bed coverings, Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005, Boycotts, Civil rights movements, African Americans, Civil rights workers
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=360334
- Object Name: Pictorial quilt
- Object ID: 2008.118.1
- Image ID: THF94582
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Purchased with funds from the Eleanor B. Safford Memorial Textile Fund.
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