A Glimpse into the Archive

“The process of remembering can be a practice which ‘transforms history from a judgement on the past in the name of a present truth to a counter-memory that combats our current modes of truth and justice, helping us to understand and change the present by placing it in a new relation to the past’” - bell hooks

There Are Black People In The Future (East Liberty) - Alisha B. Wormsley, 2018

Pittsburgh Friends of COFO Freedom Center - Charles "Teenie" Harris

Don Hamer, Pittsburgh Friends of COFO organizer, escapes bombing - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1964

Pittsburgh Friends of COFO Address - 1965

145 S. Highland Avenue - Google Maps, 2021

Exterior of Musician’s Club, Local 471, at Frankstown Avenue and Enterprise Street - Charles "Teenie" Harris

Frankstown Avenue and Enterprise Street - Adrian Jones, 2021

History of the Pittsburgh Musicians' Union Local No. 471 - University of Pittsburgh

The African American Jazz Preservation Society of Pittsburgh's Oral History of Local 471 - Historic Pittsburgh

Shadow Lounge prepares to close after over a decade in a changing neighborhood - Pittsburgh City Paper, 2013

Tribute to East Liberty community leader Jamil Brookins - Markita Wilburn

'Living room' blocks East Liberty traffic in Penn Plaza protest - WTAE, 2017

Equitable Development Conference Protest - Pittsburgh City Paper, 2015