517 results for: Museum of History
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Rev. Ralph Mero and students at Mount Zion Freedom School, Seattle, March 31, 1966
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in Seattle Public Schools. After years of frustration with city officials, a coalition of organizations led by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a boycott, requesting that all Seattle…
ID Number:1986.5.11603.8
Date:1966
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Ruth Geissmar and students at TT Minor Elementary School, Seattle, March 31, 1966
The Seattle school boycott of 1966 was a protest against racial segregation in Seattle Public Schools. After years of frustration with city officials, a coalition of organizations led by the Central Area Civil Rights Committee (CACRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organized a boycott, requesting that all Seattle…
ID Number:1986.5.11603.12
Date:1966
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Hydroplane Slo-Mo-Shun IV, Seattle, 1952
One of the highlights of Seattle's annual summer festival, Seafair, is hydroplane racing. Hydroplanes are racing boats built to glide across the water instead of through it. One of the most popular is seen here, the Slo-Mo-Shun IV, which set speed records and brought enthusiasm for the sport to Seattle in the early 1950s. "Slo-Mo" is currently on display at…
ID Number:1986.5.14163.1
Date:1952
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John Doyle Bishop in his store, Seattle, March 1967
Fashion designer and retailer John Doyle Bishop (1913-1980), known as "Seattle's most colorful Irishman," opened his first store in 1950 when he purchased Helen Igoe's exclusive women's apparel shop at 1331 Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle. In 1954 Bishop moved the shop to 1334 Fifth Avenue, where he sold his and other designs to a wealthy clientèle. A flamboyant gay…
ID Number:1986.5.19083.2
Date:1967
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Mary Gates and son Bill Gates at the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle, 1959
Mrs. William Gates, Jr. watches as her three and a half year-old son William Gates III examines an old medical kit included in a "Tillicum Box." Mrs. Gates was the Junior League chairman of the project that began in November 1958 with Junior League members visiting fourth grade classes with a box of museum artifacts. The school box program still…
ID Number:1986.5.26003.1
Date:1959
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Suman Gupta with her daughter after receiving permanent residency, Seattle, March 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.4
Date:1966
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Suman Gupta and family in office after she received permanent residency, March, 1966
Twenty-two-year-old Suman Gupta arrived in the U.S. from India in November 1963 to join her husband, Har Krishan Lal Gupta, in Olympia, Washington. Since she didn't have a visa, Immigration and Naturalization Service placed her in the legal custody of her husband. Her status was upgraded after a 1965 change in immigration law, the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota…
ID Number:1986.5.27165.11
Date:1966
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Curtis Harris, member of Seattle Black Panther party, September 19, 1968
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:1986.5.27790.14
Date:1968
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Philip Hayasaka sitting at desk, Seattle, August 30, 1968
Philip Hayasaka was born in 1926 and raised in a Japanese American neighborhood on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. He was incarcerated during World War II. After attending the University of Washington and serving in the Korean War, Hayasaka became active in civil rights in Seattle. He served as President of the multi-racial Jackson Street Community Council and led the Seattle Chapter…
ID Number:1986.5.28105.8
Date:1968
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Seattle Black Panther Party members at press conference, Seattle, July 1, 1968
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense established its Seattle chapter in the spring of 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco for 17 year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in a shootout with local police. While in Oakland, the Seattle youth met BPP…
ID Number:1986.5.50982.1
Date:1968