Looks like someone is crashing the quilting bee! In Faith Ringgold’s 1996 lithograph “The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles,” we see nine significant African American women (lower left to right): Ringgold’s fictional heroine Willia Marie Simone, Madam Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida Wells, Fannie Lou Hammer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Ella Baker. Off to the right is a red-bearded man bearing a bouquet of his own sunflowers…

Looks like someone is crashing the quilting bee!

In Faith Ringgold’s 1996 lithograph “The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles,” we see nine significant African American women (lower left to right): Ringgold’s fictional heroine Willia Marie Simone, Madam Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida Wells, Fannie Lou Hammer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Ella Baker.

Off to the right is a red-bearded man bearing a bouquet of his own sunflowers…

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