Rennie Zulu, “Twelve Squares of Traditional Culture in South Africa" (1999) and Crossroad Quilters, “Sacred Animals II Quilt” (2000) (all images courtesy Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art) ...

When Chandler resident Pamela Howard sits down to stitch a quilt, she draws inspiration from her black ancestors, former slaves who used the codes hidden in the cloth to find freedom in the North and ...

Enslaved people traveling the Underground Railroad risked death if they spoke aloud about their plans to flee. Instead, the story goes, they communicated in code through quilts hung on clotheslines. A ...