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Police and picketers at ACT-UP demonstration, Seattle, May 21, 1990
In this image, demonstrators with the direct action advocacy group ACT-UP/Seattle (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) rally over the lack of federally funded research on treatments for HIV. They are picketing in front of a Seattle Police van brought to the AIDS Clinical Trial Unit (ACTU) at 11th Avenue and Cherry Street to carry off demonstrators occupying the building. One…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.15
Date:1990
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ACT-UP activists in Mayor's office, Seattle, June 28, 1990
In this image Ann Levinson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Norman B. Rice, attempts to respond to the demands of a group of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) activists who occupied the mayor's office for several hours. The organization was upset about a city drug-loitering ordinance. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.16
Date:1990
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Harriet Bullitt in boat on Hell's Canyon, May 28, 1993
The daughter of Alexander Scott Bullitt (1877-1932) and Dorothy Stimson Bullitt (1892-1989), Harriet Overton Bullitt (1924-) is a descendant of wealthy Seattle pioneers and civic leaders. Harriet and her siblings have donated substantial amounts of money and time to the Bullitt Foundation, founded by Dorothy in 1952 with a mission to protect the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest, and…
ID Number:2000.107.029.03.01
Date:1993
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Logger Chad Johnson at logging industry rally, Federal Courthouse, Seattle, May 6, 1991
In 1990, the Northern Spotted Owl was placed on the federal endangered species list, and a plan was needed to protect the species. The owl’s primary habitat was the prime timber of the Pacific Northwest’s shrinking old growth forests. When the U.S. Forest Service proposed selling 66,000 acres of this old growth forest, environmental groups sought an injunction against the…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.05
Date:1991
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Yakama fishers checking nets on Columbia River near Lyle, Washington, August 24, 1993
Protests in the 1960s and 1970s, known at the time collectively as the "fish wars," eventually led to the Boldt Decision (United States v. Washington, 1974), a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and steelhead trout catch.In the 1990s, with growing water pollution nationwide, a study showed that tribal members living and fishing along the Columbia River…
ID Number:2000.107.064.02.04
Date:1993
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ACT UP activists blocking the door to Mayor Norm Rice's office, Seattle, September 14, 1990
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is a grassroots political activist group founded in New York in 1987 to advocate for immediate and meaningful action to fight the AIDS crisis and end homophobia. The organization's tactics include the use of direct action, such as protest and civil disobedience, advocacy, and work to change legislation and public policy. The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.073.36.10
Date:1990
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Mike Hallman and other Microsoft executives, Bellevue, December 4, 1990
The growth in the use of networked personal computers in business stimulated the development of more complex business software systems. In response, Microsoft opened a new facility in Bellevue, WA in 1990 to house its restructured Systems Support Business Unit. The new unit was created to focus on corporate users of the new and popular Windows 3.0 software and on…
ID Number:2000.107.081.33.01
Date:1990
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Rev. Robert Jeffrey during rally at New Hope Baptist Church, January 24, 1990
Rev. Dr. Robert Jeffrey served nine years as Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA before relocating to Seattle in 1986 to become the Senior Pastor of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where he still serves as of 2019. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has advocated for those locked out of economic opportunity. In 1988, Jeffrey founded the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.35.01
Date:1994
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New Hope Baptist Church pastors at local dry cleaner, October 8, 1992
Rev. Dr. Robert Jeffrey served nine years as Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA before relocating to Seattle in 1986 to become the Senior Pastor of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where he still serves as of 2019. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has advocated for those locked out of economic opportunity. In 1988, Jeffrey founded the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.35.04
Date:1992
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Hazel McKinney on the Shoalwater Bay reservation, March 10, 1993
At the time this photograph was taken, Hazel McKinney, aged 77, was the only person over 70 among the 150 members of Washington state’s Shoalwater Bay tribe. A former tribal health advocate, she actively protested the tribe’s difficulties having to use the Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic on the Quinault reservation, over eighty miles away over back roads. In addition…
ID Number:2000.107.122.34.01
Date:1993