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who raised cotton, corn, and smaller garden crops for his family. The two had married on
Christmas Day, 1925; Laula was 19 at the time. In 1939, Hystercine's father was shot and killed on a highway by a white man for unknown reasons. Following his burial, Laula, Hystercine, and her siblings (sources
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Rankin continued to work with MCC, and in 1988 was made their master quilter. She helped found and do teaching for
Crossroads Quilters, a loose collective of women quilters who displayed their work through MCC. Crossroad Quilters began organizing an annual quilt contest and show, called “Pieces and
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Besides history, Rankin also drew inspiration from dreams, from which she created her
Rainbow pattern quilts, and nature, which inspired her Sunburst quilts. Rankin also used her works to explore Black life in the South; in one quilt, titled Parchman Prison, she used a variation of the Sunburst
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Strings"; in the first ten years of the show, Rankin won 13 first-place awards in various categories. Several of Rankin's works were displayed in the
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when making these quilts. It took Rankin three to four weeks to make the squares for these quilts, and two weeks to piece the squares together.
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Hystercine Gray married her husband, Ezekiel Rankin, in 1945, at age 16. Ezekiel had recently returned from serving in the army during
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pattern to depict an abstracted design of a prison.
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