1950 results for: ACT-UP/Seattle
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Terri Mast speaking at memorial service for Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, Seattle, June 1982
Terri Mast is an activist and labor leader from Seattle. She was involved in antiwar and women’s rights movements, and was an important figure in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP). She helped start the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV) and led the International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 37. As of 2022, Mast is secretary-treasurer of…
ID Number:2000.107.119.32.02
Date:1982
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Filipino veterans Benjamin Escano, Jose Morales, and Fidel Rubias at their lawyer's office, October 30, 1990
During World War II, thousands of Filipinos fought for the US armed forces, including many who suffered years of poor treatment in prisoner of war camps or who continued fighting a guerrilla war after the US abandoned the Philippines. These veterans were promised US citizenship in return, but after the war many were told they were too late to become…
ID Number:2000.107.128.04.01
Date:1990
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Chizuko Omori at home in front of incarceration camp photos, Seattle, August 10, 1988
Chizuko May Omori (b. 1930), a young Nisei girl, was living with her family in Oceanside, California when World War II broke out. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Omori and her family were incarcerated in Poston concentration camp (known officially as the Colorado River Relocation Center) in Yuma County, Arizona. After release from the camp, Omori lived for a…
ID Number:2000.107.136.07.01
Date:1988
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ILWU members holding strike signs at Pier 20, Seattle, January 17, 1972
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU) 1971 strike began on July 1, when ILWU members walked out against their employers, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). The union's goal was to secure employment, wages, and benefits in the face of increased mechanization, shrinking workforce, and the slowing economic climate of the early 1970s. The strike shut down all 56 West…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.03
Date:1972
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Bob Santos speaking at microphone, Seattle, August 1983
Robert Nicholas "Bob" Santos (1934-2016), was a Filipino American born and raised in Seattle's Chinatown - International District. He spent most of his life as an activist in his old neighborhood -- saving it, nurturing it, defending it against outside threats, whether environmental, cultural, or political. Mr. Santos developed a close relationship with other activists for racial justice, in particular…
ID Number:2000.107.160.07.02
Date:1983
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Employees loading bags of bulgur at Fisher Flouring Mills, Seattle, July 24, 1961
In different administrative and organizational forms, the Food for Peace program of the United States has provided food assistance around the world since President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, or Public Law (P.L.) 480, in 1954. Initially a means to donate surplus U.S. commodities, the U.S. government now purchases food from American farmers through…
ID Number:2000.107.172.34.06
Date:1961
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German war brides holding U.S. citizenship papers, Seattle, June 18, 1951
The years after World War II saw an increase in immigration outside of national quotas, primarily for the spouses and children of members of the U. S. Armed Forces, brought about by legislation like the War Brides Act of 1945. This photo shows seven of nine German war brides naturalized in Seattle on June 18, 1951. They are identified from…
ID Number:2000.107.217.22.01
Date:1951
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Jung Oy Chinn signing U.S. naturalization papers, Seattle, September 17, 1951
In 1943, the Magnuson Act repealed exclusion of Chinese immigrants and allowed for a small amount of ethnic Chinese immigration to the United States. The act helped lead to additional measures allowing for quotas of other Asian ethnic groups immigrating to the United States, and in 1965 the ending of the National Origins quota system.This photo shows Jung Oy Yee…
ID Number:2000.107.217.22.02
Date:1951
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Tamura family posing at U.S. naturalization ceremony, Seattle, November 1, 1965
The Immigration Act of 1965, also called the Hart-Celler Reform Act, removed the national origins quota system of American immigration, effectively ending a system of quotas by racial ethnicity that had been in place since 1924.In this image, Mr. and Mrs. George Tamura are with their 20-month-old daughter Rica at her naturalization ceremony. Caption information source: "Asian American History," Japanese…
ID Number:2000.107.217.23.01
Date:1965
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Bernie Whitebear receiving lumber delivered by Bill Boyd, Seattle, November 10, 1974
In 1970, a group of activists led by Bernie Whitebear (1937-2000), Sin-Aikst, or Sinixt (now one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation), began a protest which culminated in approval for the development of both a cultural center for Indigenous peoples and a municipal park on decommissioned surplus land at Seattle's Fort Lawton site. After several years spent raising…
ID Number:2000.107.230.06.01
Date:1974