Honoring Juneteenth in the Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive

Drop-In Thurs., June 19, 6 p.m.
three women holding up a quilt
Charles “Teenie” Harris, Mrs. Catherine Mackey (center), director of the Senior Citizens Program at Bedford Dwellings, and Mrs. Isabella Reed (right) look on as Mrs. Irene Murray displays an intricate crazy quilt completed two years after the Civil War by Mrs. Helen Williams, a former slave. When Mrs. Williams died in Pittsburgh, she willed the quilt to Mrs. Murray. It contains every type of embroidery stitch and is made of rich silks, velvets and brocades, 1961, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund, © Carnegie Museum of Art