1189 results for: Black/African American
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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
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Oral history interview with Vivian Laye, September 13, 2005
Interview with Vivian Laye, a Boeing employee during World War II, conducted by Anita Warmflash in Seattle for the Speaking of Seattle: African American Rosies Oral History Project in September 2005. Topics discussed include: moving to Seattle, her Boeing-subsidized education and work-life balance, the union, and other employment.
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.2
Date:2005
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Oral history interview with Katherine D. Thompkins, September 1, 2005
Interview with Katherine D. Thompkins, a Boeing employee during World War II, conducted by Anita Warmflash in Seattle for the Speaking of Seattle: African American Rosies Oral History Project. Topics discussed include: moving to Seattle, difficulties with welding, working at the Boeing Little Red Barn, and the union. Please note that second part of interview is missing.
ID Number:2019.35.9.2.3
Date:2005
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Oral history interview with Rev. Samuel Berry McKinney, April 21, 2010
Interview with Rev. Samuel Berry McKinney conducted by Marsha King at KCTS Studios in Seattle for the Experienced Leaders Oral History Project in April 2010. Rev. McKinney was a Baptist minister, author, and civil rights advocate. He served as the pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, one of the largest and oldest Black churches in the Pacific Northwest from 1958…
ID Number:2019.35.16.11
Date:2010
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Phi Beta Sigma fraternity Halloween party flier, 1988
Phi Beta Sigma is a historically Black fraternity founded in 1914 at Howard University. It rapidly expanded across the United States and beyond, with the University of Washington Kappa Lambda chapter opening in 1978. As of 2023, Phi Beta Sigma has more than 700 chapters and 200,000 members. This flier advertises a Halloween party hosted by the Kappa Lambda chapter…
ID Number:2019.96.1.21.7
Date:1988