- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Protesters picketing in front of Isaly's, with signs that read, "Don't Buy At Isaly's Until They Hire Negro Counter Clerks"
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1970
- Subject:
- Signs and signboards--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Discrimination in employment--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Discrimination--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
Boycotts--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- The protest was sponsored by the Greater Pittsburgh Improvement League, and it took place in East Liberty. A woman wearing eye glasses is carrying a sign reading "Isaly's Will Not Hire Negro Clerks Don't Buy Here."
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:
- black and white: Kodak Safety Film
Accession number: 2001.35.10733
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.10733
Multimedia identifier: 19683.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=19683
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
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