#TeenieTuesday #cmoacollects Cars allowed some African Americans access to well-paying jobs, which afforded middle-class status previously out of our reach. It must have felt like there was finally a lane clearing toward The American Dream. We were able to expand our notions of leisure through travel to beaches and other cities we’d never been to before, or, perhaps, had only read about through letters and articles from the Black Press. . . Brentin Mock, in his Teenie Harris Essay Series piece illustrates how cars were synonymous with freedom in the African American community during the mid-20th century, creating unprecedented economic mobility. blog.cmoa.org/2015/10/lanes-to-freedom-ridin-around-with-no-particular-place-to-go . . Image: Charles “Teenie” Harris, Bandleader and musician Billy Eckstine posing with Cadillac convertible, ca. June 1947, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund.