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The Crossroads of the World”: A Social and Cultural History of Jazz in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1920-1970 [permanent dead link ]. PhD diss., University of Pittsburgh. Morrow, Christoper (2014). Hill House Celebrates Charter School Archived 2017-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, New Pittsburgh Courier. Whitaker, Mark.
The Crawford Grill was a renowned jazz club that operated in two locations in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.During its heyday in the 1950s and 60s, the second Crawford Grill venue hosted local and nationally-recognized acts, including jazz legends Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and Kenny Burrell.
Uptown or The Bluff (also known by its former name Soho and prior to the 20th century as Boyd's Hill [2]) is a neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the southeast of the city's Central Business District. It is bordered in the north by the Hill District and located across the Monongahela River from South Side.
The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) Historic Landmark plaque program was begun in 1968 in order to identify architecturally significant structures and significant pieces of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States's local heritage throughout Allegheny County. Nominations are reviewed by the private non-profit foundation's ...
Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood is considered to be the city's primary Jewish hub. Nearly half of the population of Squirrel Hill is Jewish. [14] Squirrel Hill has had a large Jewish population since the 1920s, when Jewish people began to move to the neighborhood in large numbers from the Oakland and Hill District neighborhoods of ...
District boundaries viewable here : Murray Hill Avenue Historic District: April 3, 2000 [9] District boundaries viewable here : Oakland Civic Center Historic District: April 7, 1992 [10] District boundaries viewable here : Oakland Square Historic District: June 14, 2005 [11] District guidelines are available here : Penn-Liberty Historic District
The statement, released on the one-year anniversary of Oct. 7, prompted swift condemnation from Jewish community leaders across Pittsburgh, home to a sizable chunk of the swing state’s 400,000 ...
The 1968 Pittsburgh riots were a series of urban disturbances that erupted in Pittsburgh on April 5, 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Pittsburgh, along with 110 other cities , burned for several days and 3,600 National Guardsmen were needed to quell the disorder.