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| Creator: | Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998 |
| Title: | Picketers outside of the Penn Sheraton Hotel protesting Alabama Governor George Wallace's visit to Pittsburgh |
| Date: | 1963-1972 |
| Description: | Some of the protesters wear sashes reading "Allegheny [Co.?] NAACP," some carry illegible banners, and at least one has a sandwich board reading "Down with Racism NAACP." The hotel marquee advertises the Steve Gibson Riverboat Room. 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. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998 | Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Political activists--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Central business districts--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Governors--Alabama | Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Men--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 | Pittsburgh (Pa.) | Allegheny County (Pa.) |
| Collection: | Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project |
| Institution: | Carnegie Museum of Art |
| Contributors: | Teenie Harris Archives (Carnegie Museum of Art) | Carnegie Museum of Art |
| Online Publisher: | [Pittsburgh, Penn.] : Carnegie Museum of Art | 2006 |
| Original Material: | black and white: Kodak safety film Accession number: 2001.35.8874 Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.8874 Multimedia identifier: 17018.jpg |
| Rights and Usage: | Rights information: http:/www.cmoa.org/collections/publications_choices.asp Ordering information: http://www.cmoa.org/collections/main_publications.asp |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.cmoa.org/searchcollections/Details.aspx?item=17018 |
