{"id":60,"date":"2017-10-05T11:32:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/?p=60"},"modified":"2023-01-20T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:43:51","slug":"ben-houstons-on-his-oral-history-and-photograhic-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/2017\/10\/05\/ben-houstons-on-his-oral-history-and-photograhic-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Houston: Oral history and photographic exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Houston, a member of the the Newcastle University Oral History Collective has a new exhibition opening at the Great North Museum on 7th October. The exhibition depicts elements of race relations and the civil rights struggle in Pittsburgh, USA, by combining the oral histories of black Pittsburghers (recorded by the Remembering African American Pittsburgh oral history project at Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy<\/a><\/strong>) with historic photos from the world-class Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive<\/a><\/strong> held by the Carnegie Museum of Art<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We also feature Ben in the first of a number of occasional podcasts from Newcastle\u2019s Oral History Collective.  Listen at: The Lug Podcast #1<\/a>. You can also listen to an extract of one of the interviews from the exhibition. Here Sala Udin<\/a> offers an overview of the key themes of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

By using Pittsburgh as a case-study, this exhibition embodies one of the central messages of Dr Martin Luther King\u2019s speech: that racism looms over our world and yet the thirst for freedom and dignity remains unquenchable.<\/p>\n

The exhibition runs in parallel with the “Teenie Harris Photographs: In Their Own Voice” exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh which takes place from 29 July 2017 \u2013 28 February 2018.<\/p>\n

Poster Image: <\/strong>Charles “Teenie” Harris
\n<\/strong>American, 1908\u20131998
\nElderly woman holding Pittsburgh Courier newspaper with headline reading \u201cReverend King Freed: Albany Tense\u201d seated in armchair, July 1962
\n<\/em>Black and white: Kodak Safety Film
\nH: 5 in. x W: 4 in. (12.70 x 10.20 cm)
\nCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Heinz Family Fund, 2001.35.7018 \u00a9 Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles \u201cTeenie\u201d Harris Archive<\/p>\n

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