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Civil Rights Digital Library
Oct 8, 2008
Teenie Harris photographs now part of digital library

Civil Rights Digital Library

Oct 8, 2008

South Pittsburgh Reporter

Wednesday, OCT 08, 2008

 

 

Charles "Teenie" Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation's oldest and most influential Black newspapers. From 1936 to 1975, Harris photographed historic events and daily life in Pittsburgh's African American community.


His photographs documenting the Civil Rights movement are now available on the Civil Rights Digital Library, organized by the University of Georgia. The Civil Rights Digital Library is the most complete web site dedicated to the Civil Rights movement and is intended to educate Americans and others from around the world about racial reforms made during the 1950s and 1960s in the United States.


It offers a digital video archive of more than 30 hours of historic news film and additional original documentation of the period, including oral histories, letters, diaries, FBI files, and photographs from 75 libraries, museums, and archives. Teenie Harris photographs can be accessed on the Civil Rights Digital Library at http://crdl.usg.edu or on Carnegie Museum of Art's web site, http:/www.cmoa.org/teenieinfo.asp.


Vintage prints and negatives in the Teenie Harris Archive were acquired with funds provided by the Heinz Family Fund and by gift of the artist and the Harris Estate. General support for museum programs is provided by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Heinz Endowments, and Allegheny County Regional Asset District. Cataloging and scanning of the Teenie Harris Archive is supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections.