#TeenieTuesday #CMOAStoryBoard . As a part of the Teenie Harris Essay Series, Erika Beras meditates over a series of photos that feature African-American Pittsburghers posing alongside shiny, new cars in the mid-twentieth century. Beras complicates car ownership by analyzing the redlining culture which blocked black Pittsburgh from obtaining loans. . “Admittedly, I am a reluctant driver,” writes Beras. “I’m not a fan of car culture and its negative impact on our cities and neighborhoods. But Harris’s photographs of cars tell a more profound story. They reveal a certain kind of truth, not only about the people we see in the frame, but about the experiences they had. In Harris’s images of automobiles, which span from the 1930s through the 1960s, it’s evident that owning a car meant something.” . Read the full essay here: blog.cmoa.org/2016/01/how-redlining-blocked-car-ownership-in-black-pittsburgh . Image: Charles “Teenie” Harris, Doris Clark (Moody) seated on Buick with steel mi...