メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「A hundred years ago today, the #19thAmendment was ratified, legalizing the right to vote for many women in the United States.⁣⁣ 🗳️ ⁣⁣⁣But the story of suffrage didn't start or end there. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Progressive women and men had been agitating for suffrage for more than seven decades. In the 1870s, Emma Civey Stahl made this pictorial quilt, including several scenes of social activism in the fight for women’s rights. In this vignette, an activist prepares to leave her husband and child, with a “Woman's Rights” banner slung over her shoulder.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ Despite the amendment, citizenship laws, voter suppression, and discrimination at the polls continued (and still continue) to create major barriers to suffrage for many who sought to exercise their new right, especially BIPOC women and immigrants. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ In 1962, forty years after the 19th Amendment, residents of the majority-Black community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama (AKA Boykin), were disenfranchised when the public ferry service to the county seat of Camden, the site of local polling stations, was cancelled. ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the women of Gee’s Bend—now world renowned for their colorful, abstract quilt designs—became an integral part of the Freedom Quilting Bee, a cooperative to raise money for the community through the sale of quilts—like the second quilt here, made by Lucy T. Pettway and donated to The Met by @soulsgrowndeepfoundation.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ In 2006, after decades of community activism, the local ferry service was reinstated.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣🎨 Emma Civey Stahl (American). Woman’s Rights Quilt, ca. 1875. Cotton. @metamericanwing ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣🎨 Lucy T. Pettway (American, 1921–2004). Housetop and Bricklayer with Bars quilt, ca. 1955. © Lucy T. Pettway⁣ @metmodern⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ @metrattitextilecenter ⁣⁣ @mettextileconservation ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #WomensVote100 ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ #BecauseofHerStory⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ #TowardEquality⁣」8月19日 6時47分