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The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz. [1]
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.
It has moved from its original location, but is still in the Hill District at 1635 Bedford Avenue, Pittsburgh PA (+1 412 471-0666). The current facility provides single-occupancy locked rooms. [2] It is operated by Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh. [3]
Conner, Lynne (2007). Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater.Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-4330-3.; Black Horizons Theater (BHT) (note the "s" in the name, which is the authentic title of the theater group, with all of its plural and future-oriented intention) was created after a meeting of Black Action Society (BAS) of the University of Pittsburgh ...
The Josh Gibson Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh aimed at preserving the history of the Negro leagues. The Foundation's president is Gibson's grandson Sean. [ 6 ] The Foundation runs a little league associated with PONY Baseball that has over 300 inner-city players, which has used the field since 1999.
The Connelley Trade School sits on a 3.56 acre site in the Hill District/Crawford–Roberts & Uptown/Uptown, Pittsburgh neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 172,152 square foot Classical Revival and Art Deco structure was designed by architect Edward B. Lee with builder J.G. Fullman and realized in steel, and clad in brownstone, with ...
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 street's location on "Grant's Hill" strangled growth in downtown Pittsburgh, leading to several attempts in 1836 and 1849 to regrade the area to remove the hill. [2] The successful removal of the hill in 1912 cost $800,000 ($25.3 million in 2023 dollars), plus $2.5 million in reimbursement costs for property damaged by the project ($78.9 ...