1183 results for: Black/African American
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Oral history interview with Jacqueline "Jackie" Lawson, August 15, 2015 and March 15, 2017
This interview with Jacqueline "Jackie" E.A. Lawson (1928-2021) was conducted by Al "Butch" Smith Jr. for the Al Smith: Seattle on the Spot Oral History Project and jointly created with the Black Heritage Society of Washington State. Lawson was the past President of the Black Heritage Society of Washington State at the time of her interview, and she talks about…
ID Number:2018.104.3
Date:2015
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Oral history interview with Delores L. Davis, February 13, 2017
Interview with Delores Davis was conducted by Howard Giske and Chris Jones for the Al Smith: Seattle on the Spot Oral History Project on February 13, 2017. Davis graduated from Seattle University in 1951 and worked as a social worker at Catholic Children Services and University Hospital, and later as an author. She received the 2020 Community Service Award, an…
ID Number:2018.104.4
Date:2017
Poster
Festival Sundiata poster, Seattle, September 25-27, 1981
Started in 1981, Festival Sundiata is a festival of Northwest African American visual and performing arts held at the Seattle Center. Since 1997, Festival Sundiata has been part of the Seattle Center's Festal season, which celebrates various ethnic and international communities in the Seattle region.This poster advertises the first Festival Sundiata with a photo of a sculpture by James Washington,…
ID Number:2019.3.37
Date:1981
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Oral history interview with Phyllis Ratcliff-Beaumonte, June 10, 2002
Interview with Rev. Phyllis Ratcliff-Beaumonte conducted about Seattle's African-American community by Audrey Scales for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project on June 10, 2002. She is the past president of the Black Heritage Society of Seattle and Seattle Church Women United and served on the executive committee board of the Seattle branch of the NAACP. Topics discussed include her…
ID Number:2019.35.1.5
Date:2002
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Anthony (Tony) Faslow and David Green, January 15, 2009
Interview with Anthony (Tony) Faslow and David Green of the Lake Union Drydock Company conducted by Marsha King on January 15, 2009 for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project. Union lead painter Tony Faslow began at the Lake Union Drydock in October 1988 and electrical foreman David Green started at the company in February 1979. In the first part…
ID Number:2019.35.1.22
Date:2009
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Oral history interview with Larry Gossett, April 11, 2002
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle's best known young Black radicals. In 1967 he was active in Seattle's Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Larry Gossett served as a member of the King County Council…
ID Number:2019.35.1.28
Date:2002
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Oral history interview with Norm Rice, October 24 and October 31, 2002
Interview with Norm Rice conducted by Gary Saaris on October 24 and 31, 2002, for the Speaking of Seattle Oral History Project. The 49th mayor of Seattle, Rice was Seattle's first Black mayor, serving two terms from 1990 to 1997. Before entering city government, he worked as a reporter at KOMO-TV and KIXI radio and as the Assistant Director of…
ID Number:2019.35.1.55
Date:2002
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Oral history interview with Adam Edwards, July 22, 2002
Interview with Adam Edwards conducted by Jessah Foulk for the Speaking of Seattle: Information Technology Oral History Project on July 22, 2002. Edwards was a Development Lead at Microsoft at the time of this interview. As of 2019, he is an Engineering Manager at Microsoft. The interview includes a discussion of being a Black tech worker, Blacks workers at Microsoft,…
ID Number:2019.35.6.5
Date:2002
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Oral history interview with Trish Millines-Dziko, August 8, 2002
Interview with Trish Millines-Dziko, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Technology Access Foundation, conducted by Jessah Foulk for the Speaking of Seattle: Information Technology Oral History Project on August 8, 2002. In 1988 she became an early employee at Microsoft, where she became active in promoting awareness of diversity in the corporate world.
ID Number:2019.35.6.11
Date:2002
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Oral history interview with Katie R. Burks, July 28, 2005
Katie Burks discusses her move to Seattle from Birmingham, Alabama to work as a mechanic for Boeing during World War II. She includes details about her social, family, and work life, unions, the YWCA and Mount Zion Church, discrimination in the South and Seattle she faced as an African American woman, and returning to work at Boeing in 1950. Interview…
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.1
Date:2005