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Protesters marching in front Pittsburgh Board of Education Building on Bellefield Avenue, one with placard reading "Citizens Committee Says Negro Teachers Want Upgrading NOW!"

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Creator:Harris, Teenie, 1908-1998
Title:Protesters marching in front Pittsburgh Board of Education Building on Bellefield Avenue, one with placard reading "Citizens Committee Says Negro Teachers Want Upgrading NOW!"
Date:1955-1975
Description:

A boy protesting is carrying a placard that reads, "Maryland Says...4 Years, We Say Do It Now, Citizens Committee."

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Types:Black-and-white photographs
Subjects:Picketing--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Signs and signboards--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh Board of Education (Pittsburgh, Pa.) | Demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | Civil rights demonstrations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh | African American teachers--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 employment--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: 2001.35.10695

Identifier: Carnegie Museum of Art 2001.35.10695

Multimedia identifier: 19606.jpg

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