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Matthew Moore, Benjamin Hooks, and Roland Saunders at a table with microphones and tape recorders

ca. 1957-1973

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Matthew Moore, Benjamin Hooks, and Roland Saunders at a table with microphones and tape recorders
  • Title
  • Matthew Moore, Benjamin Hooks, and Roland Saunders at a table with microphones and tape recorders
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1957-1973
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.183
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.183
  • Description
  • Civil rights activists Benjamin Hooks, Roland Saunders, and another man at a table with microphones and tape recorders. Benjamin Hooks, a native of Tennessee, joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1950s and went on to become head of the national NAACP. Hooks is seated next to Roland Saunders, who in 1999 sat on the Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Committee on African American Affairs.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Meetings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Political activists--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson), 1925-.
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
    Saunders, Roland.
    Interiors--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh