Minnie Benberry, who lived in western Kentucky during the Depression, recalled a governmental worker coming to visit the African American farm families scattered across the region, armed with a quilt pattern. When the women from the region “gathered in the spring at the churchyard to quilt their tops they were surprised that they each had used the same pattern,” unaware that the federal worker had distributed a tulip pattern to “everyone for miles.” These Black quiltmakers—Minnie Benberry, Maudeline Wimbleduff, Ivy Stone, and others—gave the pattern the name “WPA Tulip Quilt,” as they associated it with the governmental program that distributed it.