3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Jim Mason and Eddie Rye, Jr. talking to press, Spetember 15, 1986
On September 15, 1986, about two dozen African American contractors and unemployed workers visited the Guy F. Atkinson Co. job site near the Mount Baker tunnel to express their dissatisfaction with minority hiring and contracting procedures used by the firm. Eddie Rye Jr., a representative of the Black Contractors Coalition, told Atkinson representative Ira Fell that the group was particularly…
ID Number:2000.107.119.28.01
Date:1986
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Terri Mast and daughter Kalayaan Domingo, August 5, 1982
Terri Mast is an activist and labor leader from Seattle. She was involved in the 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…
ID Number:2000.107.119.32.01
Date:1982
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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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Benjamin McAdoo working in his architectural offices, Seattle, 1981
Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black architect to be licensed and establish a practice in Washington state. Born in Pasadena, McAdoo studied architecture at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Graduating in 1946, he was the first Black person to receive an architecture degree from UW. McAdoo launched his new…
ID Number:2000.107.120.27.01
Date:1981
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Benjamin McAdoo in his living room, Seattle, 1981
Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black architect to be licensed and establish a practice in Washington state. Born in Pasadena, McAdoo studied architecture at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Graduating in 1946, he was the first Black person to receive an architecture degree from UW. McAdoo launched his new…
ID Number:2000.107.120.27.02
Date:1981
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Benjamin McAdoo's mixed-use home and office building, Seattle, May 1981
Benjamin McAdoo (1920-1981) was the first Black architect to be licensed and establish a practice in Washington state. Born in Pasadena, McAdoo studied architecture at the University of Southern California before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Graduating in 1946, he was the first Black person to receive an architecture degree from UW. McAdoo launched his new…
ID Number:2000.107.120.27.03
Date:1981
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Craig McCaw holding cell phone, September 1986
Craig McCaw (b. 1949) was an early investor in cellular technology. McCaw's father owned a cable TV company in Centralia which Craig and his brothers inherited and ran together under Craig's leadership. In 1981, McCaw began buying cellular licenses in cities across the US, and in 1987 he sold the cable TV business and fully transitioned the company to cellular…
ID Number:2000.107.121.04.01
Date:1986
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Janet McCloud speaking at press conference, Olympia, July 3, 1968
Janet Joy "Yet-Si-Blue" (Renecker) McCloud (1934-2003) was a Tulalip tribe member and an Indian activist who was prominent in the "fish wars" that led to the Boldt Decision, a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and catch.In this image Janet McCloud speaks at one of a series of protests and press conferences organized in support of comedian…
ID Number:2000.107.121.09.01
Date:1968
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Janet McCloud, Lillian Gregory, and Jack Tanner at press conference, Olympia, July 3, 1968
Janet Joy "Yet-Si-Blue" (Renecker) McCloud (1934-2003) was a Tulalip tribe member and an Indigenous activist who was prominent in the "fish wars" that led to the Boldt Decision, a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and steelhead trout catch.In this image Janet McCloud, left, and Jack Tanner, right, and Lillian Gregory, center, speak at a press conference…
ID Number:2000.107.121.09.02
Date:1968
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Hazel McKinney on the Shoalwater Bay reservation, March 10, 1993
At the time this photograph was taken, Hazel McKinney, aged 77, was the only person over 70 among the 150 members of Washington state’s Shoalwater Bay tribe. A former tribal health advocate, she actively protested the tribe’s difficulties having to use the Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic on the Quinault reservation, over eighty miles away over back roads. In addition…
ID Number:2000.107.122.34.01
Date:1993