Martha Jane Pettway (1898–2003) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.
[4] Martha Jane and her husband Little Pettway were outspoken civil rights leaders in the Gee's Bend community.
Little Pettway was the community liaison that spearheaded the breakup and reassignment of negligent plantation owners' lands to the families of Gee's Bend.
[5] Martha Jane's quilts were a vital part of her children's comfort and warmth at home and were primarily made of repurposed work clothes.
Martha Jane's son Nathan (also Louella Pettway's husband) remembers sleeping under his sisters quilts well into adulthood.