Tribute to the Civil Rights Movement: Quilted Swing Coats by Patricia A. Montgomery

Written By Michael Jordan

Many African American women made major contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and their stories are rarely told. Patricia A. Montgomery’s structured swing coats are story quilts telling their stories, created with African American traditional quilting designs and construction techniques.

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