Quilts tell stories of Black resilience at Virginia library exhibit: 'People need to know'

Quilts tell stories of Black resilience at Virginia library exhibit: 'People need to know'

CHESAPEAKE, Va. The African American Sewcial Threaders Guild has opened "A Hundred Quilts for 100 Years of Black Resilience: The Underground Railroad and Beyond" at the Chesapeake Central Library.The exhibit features handcrafted quilts that tell stories of those who worked on the Underground Railroad and the generations that followed."The Underground Railroad Quilts actually are blocks that are assembled together, but individually they tell a st…