A quilt exhibit at Jackson State University honors dozens of lives lost in the U.S. to racial violence.
Gloria Green-McCray, the younger sister of James Earl Green, who along with Phillip Lafayette Gibbs were killed by Mississippi Highway Patrolmen in 1970 on the campus of Jackson State, reacts to viewing a section of one of two hand crafted quilts adorned with more than 115 cross-stitched portraits honoring African Americans who lost their lives to racial violence, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, on the university's campus in Jackson, Miss.
“She just kept it until it dry-rotted because that was all she really had to remember his dream — his vision,” Green-McCray said of her mother. “He didn’t get the chance to wear it,” she said, reaching out and running her finger across the tiny portrait. John Crawford III, 22, was killed by police inside a Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart store in 2014. He is depicted with his two young sons.
“It's a history that sometimes supersedes what can be written down,” said Lumumba, who is also the city of Jackson's first lady. “That’s significant for our community because we have been denied the privilege of being documented for so many centuries and so this is one of the ways that we resist that.”
Green-McCray said the quilts would evoke memories, even of a time before she was born — a reminder of “the struggle of survival.”
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