- Collection:
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
- Title:
- Men protesting swimming pool segregation on Grant Street sidewalk with signs reading "We want democracy at Highland Park Pool, Mayor Lawrence, what do you want?" and "We fought together, why can't we swim together"
- Creator:
- Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
- Date of Original:
- 1949
- Subject:
- Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Grant Street (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Central business districts--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
Swimming pools--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Segregation--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Discrimination in public accommodations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Men protesting swimming pool segregation on Grant Street sidewalk with signs reading "We want democracy at Highland Park Pool, Mayor Lawrence, what do you want?" and "We fought together, why can't we swim together"
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: 2001.35.13770
Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.13770
Multimedia identifier: 23412.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://www.cmoa.org/CollectionDetail.aspx?item=23412
- Rights Holder:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Contributing Institution:
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Rights:
-
