135 results for: Seattle Public Schools
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Group playing with a large ball in a PE class for the blind, Seattle, May 6, 1969
While working on a master’s degree project at Seattle’s Northwest Center, Dave Tucker realized the need for better physical education for blind students. He consolidated Seattle Public Schools’ PE programs for the blind and partially sighted and started classes in February 1968. Among his developments was the use of a large ball that students could push, climb on, and fall…
ID Number:2000.107.19720500.1.12
Date:1972
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Garfield principal Roscoe Bass at Central Area School Council meeting, Seattle, June 13, 1976
Roscoe Bass was an longtime educator and civil rights activist. He graduated from the Kansas State Teachers College and came to Seattle in 1958 as a substitute teacher. Bass served as the principal of Garfield High School for six years and is credited with helping turn it into one of the best schools in Washington. Bass also worked in the…
ID Number:2000.107.19760613.1.11
Date:1976
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Bronka Serebrin at boutique closing party, Seattle, January 29, 1997
Bronislawa "Bronka" Kohn Serebrin (1925-2008) was a fashion expert, the longtime owner of a clothing boutique, and a survivor of the Holocaust. Born in Lodz, Poland, Serebrin survived six years in various camps before being liberated from Mauthausen in May 1945 at age 18. Serebrin moved to the US after World War II and became involved in fashion retailing. In…
ID Number:2000.107.19970129.7.08
Date:1997
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Chris Daigre teaching dance to Rainier High School students, Seattle, February 20, 1997
In February 1997, the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) and Ewajo Dance Workshop teamed up to introduce both classical and African dance forms to students at Rainier Beach High School. The PNB held classes at public schools as part of its Dance Chance Program, which was created to improve equity and access to classical dance training. Among the participating students at…
ID Number:2000.107.19970220.15.27
Date:1997
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S.O.S. for Black Education, flier from Freedom Socialist Party, 1987
This flier advertises an "SOS for Black Education" event hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party at New Freeway Hall in 1987. Speakers included Dawn Mason, Oscar Eason, Elizabeth Jackson, and Teri Bach. Dawn Mason served in the Washington State Legislature from 1995-1999 and was the only Black member of the legislature during her terms. She was Ranking Chair of the…
ID Number:2002.23.2.30.3
Date:1987
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White students arriving at Meany Middle School, Seattle, September 6, 1972
In the 1960s, after decades of discrimination in housing had created an increasingly segregated school system in Seattle, civil rights activists wanted the School Board to promote integration and, with it, intercultural empathy and understanding. After various attempts to promote voluntary integration, and faced with the threat of legal action from advocates of integration, in 1972 the School District launched…
ID Number:2002.46.197.4
Date:1972
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Franklin High School sit-in defendant Carl Miller at King County jail, April 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, were 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:2002.68.9.5
Date:1968
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants at King County jail, April 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, were 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:2002.68.9.9
Date:1968
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants speaking with the press at King County jail, April 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, were 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:2002.68.9.10
Date:1968
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Central School's fifth grade class posing at annex, Seattle, circa 1898
In this image, 29 children pose together on the steps in front of the Washington Territorial University Building, vacated in 1895 after university's (now University of Washington) move to its current location north of downtown. The Seattle School Board leased the old university building from 1898-1899 due to overcrowding at Central School (now referred to as Central II). The university…
ID Number:2008.44.2
Date:Circa 1898