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Image of Tee Dennard of Black Arts/West, Seattle, February 21, 1980
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Tee Dennard of Black Arts/West, Seattle, February 21, 1980

Black Arts/West was Seattle’s first Black theatre and functioned as a three component program: theatre, dance, and an art gallery displaying the work of local and national artists. As a division of the Central Area Motivation Program, an anti-poverty agency, it was charged with getting young people involved and learning the necessary skills to survive and flourish in society.In this…
ID Number:2000.107.048.09.01
Date:1980
Image of Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979

Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.02
Date:1979
Image of Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979

Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.03
Date:1979
Image of Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1968
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1968

Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.09
Date:1968
Image of Elmer Dixon speaking against Youth Patrol proposal, Seattle, March 1, 1968
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Elmer Dixon speaking against Youth Patrol proposal, Seattle, March 1, 1968

Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.10
Date:1968
Image of Elaine Ko and Cindy Domingo speaking at press conference, Seattle, January 25, 1983
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Elaine Ko and Cindy Domingo speaking at press conference, Seattle, January 25, 1983

Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995 World…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.01
Date:1983
Image of Cindy Domingo and Terri Mast at press conference, September 6, 1990
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Cindy Domingo and Terri Mast at press conference, September 6, 1990

Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV), the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.02
Date:1990
Image of Cindy Domingo and supporter after verdict in Marcos trial, Seattle,  December 15, 1989
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Cindy Domingo and supporter after verdict in Marcos trial, Seattle, December 15, 1989

Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV), the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.03
Date:1989
Image of Presidential primary caucus at The Central Area Motivation Project Headquarters, Seattle, March 3, 1992
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Presidential primary caucus at The Central Area Motivation Project Headquarters, Seattle, March 3, 1992

Before 2020, Washington state delegates to the Democratic National Convention were selected at party caucuses. In March 1992, a number of caucus groups met at the headquarters of the Central Area Motivation Project in Seattle’s Central District. The precinct voted to send two delegates for then-former California governor Jerry Brown plus one uncommitted delegate. Brown carried eight caucuses meeting there.…
ID Number:2000.107.055.28.01
Date:1992
Image of Models posing in fashions from Frugallily's Thrift Store, Seattle, April 22, 1982
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Models posing in fashions from Frugallily's Thrift Store, Seattle, April 22, 1982

In this image, two models display fashions from Frugallily's, a Planned Parenthood thrift shop located at 2215 East Madison Street on the edge of the Cherry Hill neighborhood. Store manager Gayle Hayes, left, wears a hand-painted, watered silk velvet Adele Simpson dress and Ultrasuede coat. Samuel Jones, right, an accountant at Planned Parenthood, wears a custom-made Littler tuxedo. Caption information…
ID Number:2000.107.060.27.01
Date:1982
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