Edith Edmunds, 99, pictured with one of her completed Underground Railroad Code quilts. (Amy Edmunds) For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for ...

In the 1999 book, the authors decode the 10 patterns that make up the Underground Railroad Quilt Codes. The first pattern Edmunds learned to make — the one she read about in the magazine decades ago — ...