Quilt, “Stars” pattern

Mrs. Sullivan

About 1950

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String Star quilt, blue stripping
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.
Cup or Mug, Miller Pottery, Alabama, Perry County, stoneware with Albany or Michigan slip and white feldspar glaze, blue pieces tinted with cobalt
Large quilt of printed and plain cotton in a variation of the Log Cabin pattern, hand stitched and pieced with on the top a grid of squares on an angle of alternating solid teal green and colorful printed cotton, these each comprised of a smaller square and two rectangular pieces placed together in an L, the printed cotton in geometric, stripped, floral, and paisley patterns in shades of black, pink, blue, green, beige and brown, as well as plain white, the back of a woven unbleached cotton, edged in the same solid teal green cotton.