Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU): Brazil, Puerto Alegrio, prints

Creator:

Finkle, Harvey (creator, photographer)

Date:

1997

Description:

Black-and-white photographic prints depicting activities led by the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) in Brazil. Prints feature speakers and attendees at events with organizations including FCOC VI Encontro, the Federacion Metropolitana de Uniones Comunales de Juntas de Vecinos (FEMUC), Reforma Acraria Uma Luta de Todos. There are also candid photographs of people in urban and rural environments. The KWRU is an organization composed of people including those living in poverty, on public assistance, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), houseless/homeless/unhoused/unsheltered, and working menial jobs. KWRU is multi-racial reflecting the population of the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harvey Finkle (born March 28, 1934) is a self-taught documentary still photographer who has documented the social, economic, cultural, and political issues in the city of Philadelphia and across the globe. Finkle's work largely focuses on historically marginalized communities, including low income and homeless families, homeless veterans, refugees, immigrants, and disabled people, providing documentation of activism in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and focuses on social injustices in the city, the country, and the world.

Provenance:

Gifts of Harvey Finkle, 2020 and 2021.

Subject:

Activism; Demonstrations; Human rights; Kensington Welfare Rights Union; Social justice; Social rights; Welfare rights movement

Form/Genre:

black-and-white prints (photographs)

Geographic Subject:

Brazil

Related Place:

Brazil

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en

Rights Note:

The contents of the "Harvey Finkle photographs," an archival collection of photographic material created by Harvey Finkle, of which this volume of digitized images is a part, is held at the University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Notes:

All photographs taken by Harvey Finkle. The front and back of each black-and-white photographic print has been scanned. In some cases, pertinent information is written or inscribed on the back of the prints that is not reflected in the description of this volume of photographs.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 1531, Box 14, Folder 1

Collection:

Harvey Finkle photographs