CHARLES "TEENIE" HARRIS.(exhibition)(Brief Article)

WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-98) was hired in 1939 as a freelance photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, a widely circulating African-American newspaper. For the next forty-some years he covered the local scene: He took pictures of steel workers, Negro League baseball players, and neighborhood kids; he made portraits of a coal miner, a female disc jockey, a soda jerk, and a policeman; he photographed visiting leaders like John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Martin Luther King Jr. as well as protesters against racial ...

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