Photographs and stories that changed the world

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Centering People Power in the Selma to Montgomery March

Photos from the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March often downplay the transformative role of community-rooted power in securing voting rights for all Americans.

Jazz band performing with Ahmad Jamal on piano, Jon Morris on trombone, Harold 'Brushes' Lee on drums, Horace Turner on trumpet, John Foster on saxophone, and Sam Hurt (cut off on right) on trombone, in stage in front of sparkled curtain, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Pittsburgh’s Jazz Hotspots

Pittsburgh’s segregated Hill District became a hub of jazz and Black culture. Charles “Teenie” Harris, the renowned photographer and chronicler of Black life, captured it all.