Preservation Plan: Runaway Quilt Project The Runaway Quilt Project is a small digital humanities endeavor for LIS 697 Digital Humanities at Pratt Institute. Currently this project lives on a WordPress blog, where digital research about … Continue reading
Mapping Ex-slave, Gracie Mitchell was interviewed by Bernice Bowden as part of the WPA’s Federal Writers Project. During her interview Ms. Mitchell showed 30 quilts to Ms. Bowden, “She showed me twenty-two finished quilt tops, … Continue reading
During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers’ Project conducted interviews with African Americans who were former slaves. Out of over 2,300 interviews, which were digitized for the American Memory site Born in Slavery: … Continue reading