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= Anguilla Prison Camp Massacre = On July 11, 1947, law enforcement agents massacred a group of unarmed Black men in their custody at State Highway State Camp No. 18 (also called the Anguilla Stockade) in Anguilla, Georgia, an unincorporated community in Glynn County twelve miles northwest of Brunswick. Jonah Smith, Henry Manson, Willie Wright, James Smith, George Patterson, Edward Neal, and Willie Frank Chambers lost their lives.

Background
[History of the prison labor camps]

Approximately 75 Black prisoners were incarcerated at the Anguilla Stockade in July 1947.

Legacy
The Anguilla Prison Camp Massacre was memorialized in the Anguilla Prison Massacre Quilt, a collaboration between Rachel Wallis and Mariame Kaba while Wallis was an artist-in-residence at Project NIA. Wallis created the 7.5 x 5 foot quilt by hand in 2020 and 2021 using hemp and linen fabrics, block printing, and cotton batting.

At the center of the quilt's front side, eight men forced into a chain gang stand in their work clothes facing the viewer, several of them carrying shovels. The men are roughly encircled by a pair of giant venomous snakes — an eastern diamondback rattlesnake and an eastern coral snake, both endemic to southern Georgia — whose tails are entwined with a pair of legcuff shackles. The background, composed of greens, yellows, and blues, maps the Georgia coast close to the site of the massacre. The name of each victim is stitched into the land. At each of the quilt's four corners, small maps of Georgia provide county-level historical data related to the state's history of racial terror: the number of lynchings by county (1877-1950), the number of police killings by county (2010-2020), the percentage of each county population that was held in slavery in 1861, and the location of prisons and jails in the state as of 2021. "They worked hemmed in by death, caught between system of violent subjugation on one side of them and literal poisonous snakes on the other," Wallis wrote in her artist statement. "I also thought about materials, about cotton and fabric, and how its history also played into these systems of death. How cotton’s rise depended on the labor of enslaved Black people, the displacement of native communities, and the crushing labor conditions of textile factories in the north."

On the back side of the quilt is a collage composed of digitally printed, contemporary newspaper clippings covering the Anguilla Prison Camp Massacre, as well as primary source materials from the NAACP archives and their Brunswick local chapter. "If the front of the quilt is a roadmap of oppression, of violent subjugation of Black people in America, the back of the quilt is a map of resistance," Wallis wrote. "Printed on fabric and sewn together are dozens of pieces of ephemera documenting the history of the case and the organizing that it ignited." At the center of the collage on the back of the quilt is a final map of Georgia, this time pinpointing each location of a Black Lives Matter action across the state in 2020 — a year that saw a summer of sustained uprisings against law enforcement murders of Black people.

https://www.crrjarchive.org/incidents/141

https://books.google.com/books?id=u9p6CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=anguilla+georgia+state+convict+camp+no+18&source=bl&ots=ZTL_3k5G9X&sig=ACfU3U34Cvy3uTEwqCADz4UXdkmxrRFHRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjdsu3Vt_WEAxVgIjQIHWBeBnI4ChDoAXoECAQQAw#v=onepage&q=anguilla%20georgia%20state%20convict%20camp%20no%2018&f=false

https://georgia-exhibits.galileo.usg.edu/spotlight/convict-labor/feature/carceral-labor-after-1945

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/anguilla-prison-massacre/

= List of funerals attended by Anna Wintour = British-American, New York City based media executive Anna Wintour has served as editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine since 1988. She is widely considered the most powerful woman in the publishing world, and her exercise of editorial judgment has had enormous, lasting influence on the fashion industry. As the central ambassador for a publication that has profiled leading politicians, actors, athletes, musicians, artists, and other significant cultural figures, Wintour's trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses have for decades been spotted in the crowd alongside heads-of-state and celebrities at a wide range of notable funerals. Her presence reflects both her profound impact on the publishing and fashion worlds, as well as the wide-ranging influence of those industries in the larger culture.

1980-1989

 * Diana Vreeland (1903-1989), American fashion columnist and former editor-in-chief at Vogue. Wintour reportedly attended the funeral wearing a red and black Chanel suit.

1990-1999

 * Gianni Versace (1946-1997), Italian fashion designer. After he was tragically gunned down in Miami Beach, Florida, Wintour was among the crowd gathered for his funeral mass at the Duomo di Milano in Milan.
 * Princess Diana (1961-1997), member of the British Royal Family and mother to Prince William and Prince Harry. A friend of Princess Diana who would meet her for lunches and galas, Wintour attended her funeral service at Westminster Abbey.

2000-2009

 * Isabella Blow (1958-2007), English magazine editor credited with launching the commercial career of Alexander McQueen. Wintour read the first address at the memorial service.

2010-2019

 * Alexander McQueen (1969-2010), British fashion designer and couturier. Wintour, who had long been a supporter of McQueen's work, delivered an address at his memorial service.
 * Beatrix Miller (1923-2014), British fashion magazine editor who served as editor-in-chief of British Vogue. Wintour, donning a blue dress, was among the many fashion industry attendees at Miller's memorial service at St. George's Church in London.
 * Oscar de la Renta (1932-2014), Dominican fashion designer. The funeral service at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City was attended by dozens of dignitaries, including former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. During the memorial service, Wintour read a poem, "He is Gone," by David Harkins.
 * Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019), German fashion designer who rose to fame in the French luxury fashion house Chanel. A close friend of Lagerfeld, Wintour attended Lagerfeld's cremation ceremony and dedicated the 2023 Met Gala theme, "A Line of Beauty," to his memory.
 * Peter Lindbergh (1944-2019), German photographer and film director. Wintour attended funeral services at the Eglise Saint-Sulpice in Paris.

2020-Present

 * André Leon Talley (1948-2022), American fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and editor. Talley's funeral at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem featured an array of prominent speakers, including Wintour, commemorating his towering legacy in fashion.
 * Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022), English fashion designer. Wintour gathered with other dignitaries at Southwark Cathedral in London to pay respects.