Dr. Tracy Vaughn-Manley sews these quilts by hand as an homage to her ancestors, and an important piece of American history.
We're celebrating Black History Month with a local quilt maker who's being honored with an exhibit at Northwestern University."Something just spoke to me," Vaughn-Manley said.
"I have a great grandmother, grandmother, mother who all sewed and who all were artistic and it was a way for me to fall into that matrilineal line."Copyright © 2023 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.
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