She Refused to Walk Behind 

Alice Beasley 
2022 
Machine appliqued and quilted 
This quilt focuses on the problems of intersectionality in America. People who identify as minorities in multiple aspects aren’t heard, an example being Black women. When white women fought for suffrage in the twentieth century, African American women often weren’t included. The quilt shows this idea by depicting Ida B. Wells at a march. She faces the viewer as a women’s march passes her (full of white women). In fact, the activists don’t seem to notice Wells at all. The white women in the front hold a sign saying, “Vote for Women”. It's ironic that the crowd is ignoring one of their own and fighting for their own voice in government in order to create an “equal” society.