- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Men and workmen picketing outside Allegheny Children's Center, with signs reading "Manchester Citizens Support Dr. C. J. Burks" and "Dr. Muldoc[?] reinstate Dr. Burks"
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1965/1975
- Subject:
- Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Signs and signboards--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Children--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:
- Burks, Charles J.
- Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Dr. Charles J. Burks was the first African American physician with hospital privileges at Montefiore Hospital in 1948. He also established PBA, The Second Step drug rehabilitation program.
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: 2001.35.4606
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.4606
Multimedia identifier: 7495.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=7495
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
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