- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Picketers outside of the Penn Sheraton Hotel protesting Alabama Governor George Wallace's visit to Pittsburgh
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1963/1972
- Subject:
- Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Political activists--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Central business districts--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Governors--Alabama
Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African Americans--Civil rights--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Civil rights workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African American civil rights workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Civil rights movements--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh - People:
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
- Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Some of the protesters wear sashes reading "Allegheny [Co.?] NAACP," some carry illegible banners, and at least one has a sandwich board reading "Down with Racism NAACP." The hotel marquee advertises the Steve Gibson Riverboat Room.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- Accession number: 2001.35.8874
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.8874
Multimedia identifier: 17018.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=17018
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
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