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How "Qualified" do WE have to be?
A picket protests the lack of black employees at the downtown Champaign J.C. Penney store in 1961.
Local quilt-makers featured in "Covering Our Heritage"
Images of local quilt-makers whose quilts were featured in the Spring 1994 Krannert Art Museum exhibit "Covering Our Heritage." Photoed include: Luvata Bowles, Mary Louise McCoy, Pauline Gates Pelmore, Mamie Smith, Maudie Edwards, and Emma Brant
Applique quilt pieced by Landau Cannon Butler; quilted years later by Mary Avant and often at Douglas Annex, Champaign Park District
Quilt displayed as part of Krannert Art Museum exhibit on African-American quilting in Champaign-Urbana. Exhibit took place in Spring 1994.