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  1. Please fix your page! Constant ads very frustrating! Unable to read article.

  2. are the above pics of Pettway plantation etc. included in the Al Footprints Exploration Vol1. or can these photos be purchased ?
    thank you

  3. Wilcox Co-Poorest county in ALabama–I spent time there in an alabama prison road crew-1988-oct-

  4. […] (Click to see more images, film and the story of Skyline Farms in Jackson County, Alabama and Gee’s Bend in Wilcox County, […]

  5. […] making bedspreads at Gees Bend, Alabama 1938– This was also part of the National Youth Administration Program. (Library of […]

  6. They are known for their quilts

  7. Melanie Stickler Falconer

  8. I actually got to help with the hydraulic system on the new “Green” running ferry at Gees Bend.

  9. Awesome picture- I love the dignity in that child’s face.

  10. Slaves were not Americans, they were property, therefore applying the misnomer African American is simply that, a misnomer, as it is for black Americans who are descendants of enslaved Africans. Bothe can not be the same since one of each is incorrect.