The Improvisational Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter

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[slickr-flickr tag="sah" id="31282761@N08" size="m640" align="center" type="slideshow" ]Susana Allen Hunter (1912 – 2005) was an African American quilter from rural Wilcox County, Alabama. The daughter of Tobe Allen and Mary Richardson Allen, Susana married Julius Hunter (1909-1996) in the late 1920s. They had two children and also raised their grandson. Susana and her husband were sharecroppers or tenant farmers. They lived in a two-room house in Wilcox County, Alabama, 32 miles south of Selma.

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