3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Supporters of school integration picketing outside Seattle Public School offices, Seattle, May 12, 1965
Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, various civil rights groups in Seattle unsuccessfully tried to persuade a predominately white school board to address the issues of desegregation of the Seattle Public Schools. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) felt that most of the educational deficiencies among the bulk…
ID Number:2000.107.141.13.03
Date:1965
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Picketers protesting discriminatory loan practices at Liberty Bank, Seattle, February 15, 1972
In response to urban problems of poverty and race in the United States, in November 1966 Congress initiated the Model Cities Program. The program's objectives were to reduce social and economic disadvantages in designated neighborhoods, provide training and employment opportunities, and establish health services for residents. Financial and technical assistance was made available to cities through the Department of Housing…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.01
Date:1972
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Union supporters picketing at Marie's Cafe in Greenwood, Seattle, August 26, 1974
Marie's Cafe was founded in the early 1940s in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. A successful restaurant for several decades, retail sale of salad dressings developed in the cafe eventually took over the business. Today, Marie's Salad Dressing is a nationally-distributed brand owned by Dean Foods Co.In this image picketers outside Marie's Cafe at Northwest 85th and Greenwood demonstrate support of cafe…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.02
Date:1974
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ILWU members holding strike signs at Pier 20, Seattle, January 17, 1972
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU) 1971 strike began on July 1, when ILWU members walked out against their employers, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA). The union's goal was to secure employment, wages, and benefits in the face of increased mechanization, shrinking workforce, and the slowing economic climate of the early 1970s. The strike shut down all 56 West…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.03
Date:1972
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Teamsters striking King County Humane Society, Seattle, March 29, 1972
In March 1972, Teamsters Local 174 in Seattle walked out of work at the King County Humane Society, where they had been without a contract since the previous April. The Teamsters also filed an unfair-labor-practice charge against the Humane Society, contending that the non-profit had refused to bargain for a new contract. Waldo J. Dahl, president of the Humane Society,…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.04
Date:1972
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Women speaking with Ben Paris billiards room attendant, Seattle, April 3, 1963
In April 1963, two women who worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went out with a reporter and photographer to test a law recently passed in Washington state. The law stated that, "Woman may pursue any calling open to men," and "May not be excluded from any premises...on account of sex." Though the pair were rebuffed when they tried to apply…
ID Number:2000.107.141.23.01
Date:1963
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Black Arts/West actors rehearsing "The River Niger," Seattle, June 4, 1974
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. Founded by Douglas Q. Barnett (1931-) in 1969, Black Arts/West evolved out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and was charged with getting young people involved and learning the necessary…
ID Number:2000.107.142.33.01
Date:1974
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Jim Pomeroy, motocross champion, Seattle, December 31, 1973
Off-road motorcycle racing on natural terrain had started in Europe in the 1920s and gradually became popular in the US as well. In April 1973, Yakima native Jim Pomeroy became the first American to win a European Grand Prix motocross motorcycle championship. By the end of the year, he was the first American to lead the World Championship sports list.Here,…
ID Number:2000.107.145.25.04
Date:1973
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Steve Pool at KOMO News studio, Seattle, January 1981
Steve Pool (1953-2023) was the longtime chief weather forecaster for KOMO 4 News. He graduated from Tyee High School and began working at KOMO as an intern while still attending the University of Washington. Pool’s first jobs at KOMO were reporting news and sports, and in 1984, he was promoted to chief meteorologist, becoming one of the first Black forecasters…
ID Number:2000.107.145.26.01
Date:1981
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Edwin Pratt, Robert Williams, and James McIver at "Sunday of Concern" meeting, November 11, 1968
At monthly "Sunday of Concern" meetings, representatives of 40 Central Area organizations got together to discuss problems in the district. In this photograph (left to right) Edwin T. Pratt, Executive Director of the Seattle Urban League; Robert Williams, intergroup relations specialist at Seattle Public Schools; and James McIver, head of the Loren Miller Bar Club, an organization for Black attorneys,…
ID Number:2000.107.146.25.01
Date:1968