An African American majority community and census-designated place in a large bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama.
Gee's Bend was named for Joseph Gee, an early large land owner from Halifax County, North Carolina who settled there in 1816.
Gee brought 18 African American slaves with him and established a cotton plantation within the bend.
In 2005 the quilts created by some 45 Alabama artists, African-American women from a rural community in the Black Belt, were exhibited at Auburn’s Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts.
There are many issues surrounding the quilts and the women who created them.
