Black History from Pittsburgh

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The Week of April 1st, 2007: IN BLACK HISTORY
CHARLIE "TEENIE" HARRIS

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Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908—1998) was an accomplished African-American photographer.

Harris was born in 1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, the son of hotel owners in the city's Hill District. Early in the 1930s he purchased his first camera and opened a photography studio. He freelanced for the Washington D.C. news picture magazine, Flash!. From the 1936 to the 1975 Harris chronciled life in the black neighborhoods of the city for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of America's oldest black newspapers. He was nicknamed "One Shot" because he rarely made his subjects sit for retakes. Harris took more than 80,000 images during his career. The body of his work constitutes arguably the largest and most complete photographic documentation of a minority community in the United States. Unlike his more celebrated African-American contemporaries, such as James Van Der Zee, known for studio portraits, or Gordon Parks, who traveled widely as a photojournalist, Harris was a working-class photographer tethered to a job with a circumscribed beat. His work was rarely seen outside of Pittsburgh, until after his death in 1998.

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REST IN PEACE: (R.I.P.)

Andrea Lee Oliver Woodson aka "Andy" aka "Mother"

Lucy Curry , Dot Talley, Vera Downing, Bertrand "Goocher" Frye, Irma Woodson,
Russell Woodson, Cayce "Beany" Woodson, Margorie Robinson-Adams, Nora Moorehead-Dixon, Irene Moorehead-Battle, James Dixon, Anthony "Torry" Dorsey, Ross "Booper" Thomas, Termain "Butter" Woodson, Dorothy Jean Lee Ransom, Charles Andrew Ransom, John Martin Moorehead, Jr., Donna Ann Davis, Patrice "Trice Ball" Howze, Louise Ledbetter, Mary Ann Barlow, Edward Pratt

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