The Beginning of Social Justice, Cynthia H. Catlin

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The Beginning of Social Justice, 2012
Where object was made: San Pedro, California, United States
Material/technique: machine quilting; machine appliqué; rayon thread; wool batting; free-motion machine quilting; hand-dyed cotton fabric; metallic thread; suede; embroidering
Accession number: EL2017.080
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And Still We Rise

1863: President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

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