Operation Better Block

1970/1980

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Operation Better Block
  • Title
  • Operation Better Block
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B015.F06.I03
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B015.F06.I03
  • Description
  • Participants and a staff member of Operation Better Block (pictured here) take part in a street beautification program. Operation Better Block, Inc. was created in 1970 as a subsidiary of the Better Block Development Corporation. The organization is headquartered in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh and its primary focus includes promoting and revitalizing the Homewood-Brushton community, developing programs that build and provide housing for lower income families, and educating the youth of the neighborhood. Operation Better Block also collaborates with the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh on various projects.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Better Block Development Corporation.Operation Better Block (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Homewood (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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