Ohio's Freedom Center Presents Largest Ever Exhibition of African American Quilts

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OHIO---The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will present its newest special exhibition,  "And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations" beginning Oct. 12. The exhibition narrates 400 years of history through 85 story quilts curated by Carolyn Mazloomi, Ph.D., director of the Women of Color Quilter's Network. Planned for a national tour, "And Still We Rise" was organized by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Cincinnati Museum Center.

"Lucy Terry Prince: The Griot's Voice" (2012) by Peggie Hartwell

(Above) Lucy Terry, an enslaved person in 1746, becomes the earliest known Black American poet when she writes about the last American Indian attack on her village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Her poem, “Bar's Fight,” is not published until 1855.