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Homewood is a predominantly African-American neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, officially divided into three neighborhoods: Homewood North, Homewood South and Homewood West. Homewood is bordered on the southwest by the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway which follows the old Pennsylvania Railroad line toward downtown ...
Helen Clay Frick (September 2, 1888 – November 9, 1984) [1] was an American philanthropist and art collector. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the third child of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs (1859–1931). Two of her siblings did not reach adulthood, and her father ...
Homewood-Brushton Center Situated on North Homewood Avenue, the Homewood-Brushton center is positioned to serve the city's east-end neighborhoods and outlying suburbs. A community presence since 1967, the center's current building dates from 1981, when popularity of the center's programs necessitated the construction of a new 32,000-square-foot ...
vanessa german vanessa german on stage Born 1976 (age 47–48) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Known for Sculpture vanessa german (born 1976) is an American sculptor, painter, writer, activist, performer, and poet based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her sculpture often includes assembled statues of female figures with their faces or heads painted black, and a wide range of attached objects ...
William C. McCarthy. 1875–1878. Republican. Formerly a legend as a Pittsburgh Fire Fighter and commander, during administration ended the police practice of assuring "All is Well" on the hour, later served as city controller. 31. Robert Liddell. 1878–1881.
Women and the Civil Rights Rovement, 1954–1965. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi. Levin, Steve (1998, February 2). "Daisy Lampkin was a dynamo for change". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. White, D. (1999). Too Heavy a Load: Black women in defense of themselves 1894–1994. New York: Norton.
Pittsburgh ( / ˈpɪtsbɜːrɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan ...
City. Pittsburgh. The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz. [1] Despite its cultural and economic vibrancy, in the mid-1950s a ...