In jazz clubs, Little League games, beauty contests, church functions, boxing matches, political events, protest marches, and everyday scenes, Teenie Harris captured the essence of African American life in Pittsburgh. Harris's career began as America emerged from the Great Depression and ended after the civil rights movement.
The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles "Teenie” Harris (1908-1998). But it's in the images of other, ordinary people and neighbourhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friendship, and family.