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Subject Discrimination in housing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh Collection Name Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project

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1. Group of protesters outside Civic Building with signs reading "Housing authority, you must be fair to your community," and "Housing authority [board] don't you trust your legal administrative staff"

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1970/1975
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

2. Woman feeding bottle to baby, standing in bedroom, and holding protest sign reading "Do your children live like this in Squirrel Hill? We are still human not animal"

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1963-08
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

3. Protest outside George A. Jones and Sons Real Estate office, one woman with sign reading "Up with South Side, Down with Slum Housing," and another with sign reading "We hate to tell you this George but you have bad... housing, the Green Phantom"

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1960/1975
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

4. Protesters, including Nate Smith and Reverend Jimmy Joe Robinson with flaming torches protesting against slum landlords outside duplex in Homewood Brushton

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1955/1970
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

5. Protesters marching in front two story house, with placards reading "Slum Lords are Done For"

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1950/1970
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

6. Protest outside Giant Eagle Market, one man with sign reading "Business Today Housing Tomorrow" and police officers in background

Creator:: Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Date of Original:: 1950/1975
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art

7. 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
Collection:: Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Contributing Institution:: Carnegie Museum of Art