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Before Tuskegee, There Was Riverside Airfield

Header for “Birds of a Feather” feature that profiled local aviatrixes in The Pittsburgh Press, March 13, 1932

Breaking Barriers and Soaring Into History: Pittsburgh's 'Three Helens' During the Golden Age of Aviation

A black-and-white photograph of an African American male porter holding a suitcase while a white woman steps up into a rail car.

The Railroad Workers Behind the Civil Rights Movement

A boy in a long wool coat and hat holds a small case

A Teenager's Holocaust Diary Is Changing the Way We Interact With Online Exhibitions

A group of people sit in chairs at the History Center raising mini American flags during a Citizenship ceremony

The Time is Now for Tackling Historical Illiteracy and Creating a New Type of Civic Participation

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