- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Alberta Jordan Reaves protesting in front of Isaly's, carrying sign reading "Isaly's discriminate against Negroes by refusing to hire them as counter clerks"
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1970
- Subject:
- Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Sidewalks--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Isaly's (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Signs and signboards--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Women civil rights workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Civil rights workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Protest marches--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Civil rights movements--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African American civil rights workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Discrimination in employment--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Race discrimination--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Restaurants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Discrimination in restaurants--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
African Americans--Civil rights--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh - People:
- Reaves, Alberta Jordan
- 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 possibly took place in East Liberty.
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: 2001.35.3170
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.3170
Multimedia identifier: 5223.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=5223
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
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