Join environmental historian Jennifer Ott for an exploration of those roots and how they have shaped our waterfront into the iconic place it is today.
Learn the strategies for cross-cultural organizing that led to their success and how this can be applied to liberation struggles today. Join University of Washington Professor Marc Arsell Robinson, author of Washington State Rising: Black Power on Campus in the Pacific Northwest, to understand how solidarity spread across camps and beyond.
Seattle's first workforce consisted overwhelmingly of Asian and Indigenous migrant laborers. Though these workers largely powered the urban and regional economy, their role in building the city has long been forgotten. Join historian Megan Asaka as she explores Seattle's early days from the perspective of these marginalized laborers whose experiences hold important lessons for the city's past-and present.
