Traveling Young, Gifted, And Black (Traveling while Black Series)

Description

Traveling While Blak/Green Book Series – During the Jim Crow era (1865 through the 1960’s) blacks
traveled through dangerous, deeply segregated states, cities, and communities primarily using word of
mouth and The Green Book. This book let black travelers know where they could and could not stop to
sleep, eat, or even rest while traveling through the segregated south. Images in the Green Book Series
gives presence to the thousands who refused to let fear keep them from friends and family.

Size: 52.5” w x 66”h
Medium: Batik patchwork background, hand-painted, appliquéd, fused, stitched, and long-arm quilted fine art quilt Underground Railroad symbols used: Bow Tie and Crossroads.