Willie Abrams (1897–1987), also known as Ma Willie, was an American artist. She was a member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, along with her daughter Estelle Witherspoon, and is associated with the Gee's Bend quilters.[1][2][3][4] Some of “Ma” Willie’s quilts are in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.[5][2]
^"Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt and African American Quiltmaking Traditions". www.philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
^ ab"Willie "Ma Willie" Abrams | Souls Grown Deep Foundation". www.soulsgrowndeep.org. Retrieved 2019-04-20.
^Beardsley, John; Arnett, William; Arnett, Paul; Livingston, Jane (2002). Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Tinwood Books. p. 204. ISBN 9780971910409.
^Callahan, Nancy (2005-04-17). The Freedom Quilting Bee: Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement. University of Alabama Press. p. 207. ISBN 9780817352479.
^"Willie Abrams | Roman Stripes quilt". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
WillieAbrams (1897–1987), also known as Ma Willie, was an American artist. She was a member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, along with her daughter Estelle...
membership. Influential members of the Freedom Quilting Bee include Willie "Ma Willie" Abrams and her daughter, Estelle Witherspoon. Both women come from the...
Leslie Abrams Gardner (née Leslie Joyce Abrams; born December 6, 1974) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for...
group, alongside her mother, Willie "Ma Willie" Abrams. Estelle Witherspoon is the only daughter of “Ma” WillieAbrams. Estelle is one of the founding...
of the founding and influential members include Estelle Witherspoon, WillieAbrams, Lucy Mingo, Minder Pettway Coleman, and Aolar Mosely. The communal...
of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and WillieAbrams, who came over from the University of Oklahoma Center for Telemedicine...
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Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde from 1997 to 1998, portraying Willie Oban in the 1999 Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh, and playing Guy...
Sue Willie Seltzer (1922–2010) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum...
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began quilting under the instruction of Witherspoon and her aunt Ma WillieAbrams. Despite their mentorship, Moore still describes her work and patterns...
Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000. ABRAMS. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-1-68335-541-0. "Deborah Pettway Young - Souls Grown...
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Nellie Mae Abrams (1946–2005) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective. Her art has been exhibited at the Museum...
United States Supreme Court. In 1988, Harper along with NAACP attorney WillieAbrams sued Richland County, resulting in 11 voting districts and the election...
1996. Dateline Extra MSNBC Films Sky News on MSNBC[citation needed] The Abrams Report Alan Keyes Is Making Sense Buchanan & Press Connected: Coast to Coast...
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2019-04-23. Rubin, Susan Goldman. 2017. The Quilts of Gee's Bend. New York: Abrams. p. 37-38. Beardsley, John; Arnett, William; Arnett, Paul; Livingston, Jane...
the time. Rubin, Susan Goldman. 2017. The Quilts of Gee's Bend. New York: Abrams. p. 29. Callahan, Nancy. 2014. The Freedom Quilting Bee : Folk Art and the...
Books. Rubin, Susan Goldman (2017). The Quilts of Gee's Bend. New York: Abrams. p. 23. Beardsley, John; Arnett, William; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts;...
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quilting under her mother's tutelage at the age of 11. She met her husband, Willie Earl Bennett, in 1935 and they married two months later. Together they raised...
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