- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Men and women gathered in Pittsburgh City Council Chambers, protesting housing conditions in Hill District, with signs reading "Better Homes or Bigger Cemeteries," "From G.I. Latrines to Hill District out houses," and "From G.I. foxholes to Hill District rat holes"
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1945/1960
- Subject:
- Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Picketing--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
Discrimination in housing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.) - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Men and women gathered in Pittsburgh City Council Chambers, protesting housing conditions in Hill District, with signs reading "Better Homes or Bigger Cemeteries," "From G.I. Latrines to Hill District out houses," and "From G.I. foxholes to Hill District rat holes"
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: Ansco safety film
Accession number: 2001.35.4593
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.4593
Multimedia identifier: 7482.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=7482
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
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