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Quilt, “Broken Star” pattern
Nora Ezell
June 1980
Titles
Quilt, "Broken Star" pattern (Descriptive)
Artist
Nora Ezell, American, born Brooksville, Mississippi 1917; lived Eutaw, Alabama; died 2007, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Medium
textiles
Dimensions
91 × 84 1/2 in. (231.1 × 214.6 cm)
Credit Line
Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Robert and Helen Cargo African American Quilt Collection; Gift of Caroline Cargo, AFI.805.2013
Work Type
quilt
Classification
Quilts
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![Picture or story quilt handcrafted of multi-colored cotton and cotton blend fabrics in shades of red, green and blue, made in commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement, in a grid pattern of nine blocks beginning in the upper left corner with block 5) Bus Boycott--Rosa Parks; upper middle block 6) [illegible] Baptist Church (appears to be an image of Bethel Baptist Church); upper right block 8) Kennedy Saga; middle left block 1) 16th Street Baptist Church; middle block 3) Extra Milers; middle right block 2) Freedom Riders; lower left block 7) Edmund Pettus Bridge; lower middle block 4) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; lower right block 9) Directory.](https://media.artsbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11085920/AFI421996_01_p01_w-400x389.jpg "AFI421996_01_p01_w | Birmingham Museum of Art")
