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Image of Ballard versus Franklin High School football game in Seattle, 1958
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Ballard versus Franklin High School football game in Seattle, 1958

Handwritten on sleeve: FOOTBALL, Ballard High vs. Franklin, 1958.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 30, 1958.
ID Number:1986.5.3400.1
Date:1958
Image of Cleveland versus West Seattle high school football game, Seattle, 1955
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Cleveland versus West Seattle high school football game, Seattle, 1955

Handwritten on sleeve: FOOTBALL, Cleveland High vs. West Seattle. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): 1955.
ID Number:1986.5.3409.1
Date:1955
Image of Roosevelt High School football team getting trophy after beating Garfield, Seattle, 1964
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Roosevelt High School football team getting trophy after beating Garfield, Seattle, 1964

Handwritten on sleeve: FOOTBALL, Roosevelt High defeats Garfield, celebrates, 1964.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): 1964.
ID Number:1986.5.3463.1
Date:1964
Image of Nine inmates at graduation ceremony at McNeil Island Penitentiary, June 1967
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Nine inmates at graduation ceremony at McNeil Island Penitentiary, June 1967

McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:1986.5.5490.1
Date:1967
Image of High School graduates posing at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, June 1, 1949
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High School graduates posing at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, June 1, 1949

Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9376.1
Date:1949
Image of Open housing demonstration at Garfield playfield, Seattle, October 20, 1963
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Open housing demonstration at Garfield playfield, Seattle, October 20, 1963

In the mid-20th century, protesters began challenging long-established inequitable practices in housing. Racially restrictive housing covenants and discriminatory lending (“redlining”) excluded people of color from buying or renting housing in most of Seattle’s neighborhoods. In 1963, the Seattle Human Rights Commission drafted an open housing ordinance and presented it to the City Council for approval. The Council held public hearings…
ID Number:1986.5.9653.7
Date:1963
Image of Seattle Chinese Community Girls' Drill Team at Seafair Powwow during, Seattle, August 11, 1952
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Seattle Chinese Community Girls' Drill Team at Seafair Powwow during, Seattle, August 11, 1952

Seattle’s Chinese Community Girls’ Drill team had its roots in the early 1950s. A group of Chinese girls at Seattle’s Garfield High School were impressed with girls’ drill teams from San Francisco and Victoria, BC. They talked with local Chinese American leader Ruby Chow about the possibility of starting one in Seattle as a way to share Chinese culture in…
ID Number:1986.5.11299.1
Date:1952
Image of Aaron Dixon and Trolice Flavors at court hearing for Franklin High School sit-in, Seattle, April 5, 1968
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Aaron Dixon and Trolice Flavors at court hearing for Franklin High School sit-in, Seattle, April 5, 1968

In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11579.11
Date:1968
Image of Franklin High School sit-in defendants leaving prison, Seattle, April 5, 1968
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants leaving prison, Seattle, April 5, 1968

In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11580.6
Date:1968
Image of Aaron Dixon with his mother at courthouse, April 5, 1968
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Aaron Dixon with his mother at courthouse, April 5, 1968

In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:1986.5.11580.13
Date:1968
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