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Image of Shirley Parker performing at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, December 20, 1982
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Shirley Parker performing at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, December 20, 1982

In 1969, the City of Seattle used federal Model Cities funds to purchase a building for use as a community center, the Chevra Bikur Cholim Synagogue, which was designed in 1915 by B. Marcus Priteca (1889-1971) and located at 104 17th Avenue South in the Central District neighborhood. In 1971 the building became the home of what is now known…
ID Number:2000.107.138.12.01
Date:1982
Image of Supporters of school integration picketing outside Seattle Public School offices, Seattle, May 12, 1965
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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
Image of Edwin Pratt, Robert Williams, and James McIver at
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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
Image of Mekong Rainier Supermarket in Rainier Valley, Seattle, July 12, 1983
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Mekong Rainier Supermarket in Rainier Valley, Seattle, July 12, 1983

In the early 1980s, the demographics of Rainier Valley were changing quickly. The area had been mostly white through the 1960s. However, the Boeing bust in the early 1970s, combined with freeway building projects, began pushing Black residents of the Central Area further south into Rainier Valley where housing was more available and rents were cheaper. New construction and condominiums…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.05
Date:1983
Image of Tear gas at demonstration at 23rd & Cherry, Seattle, May 26, 1969
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Tear gas at demonstration at 23rd & Cherry, Seattle, May 26, 1969

In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.01
Date:1969
Image of Police running to demonstration at Summit Branch of Seattle Community College, May 23, 1969
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Police running to demonstration at Summit Branch of Seattle Community College, May 23, 1969

In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.02
Date:1969
Image of Demonstrators at 19th Avenue S. and S. Washington Street, Seattle, May 26, 1969
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Demonstrators at 19th Avenue S. and S. Washington Street, Seattle, May 26, 1969

In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.03
Date:1969
Image of Protesters running from tear gas at 23rd and Cherry, Seattle, May 26, 1969
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Protesters running from tear gas at 23rd and Cherry, Seattle, May 26, 1969

In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.04
Date:1969
Image of Marchers on Denny Way protesting lack of jobs for minorities, Seattle, December 14, 1969
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Marchers on Denny Way protesting lack of jobs for minorities, Seattle, December 14, 1969

On Sunday, December 14, 1969, the Central Area Civil Rights Committee sponsored a March Against Underemployment of Minorities. Nearly 3,000 people walked from five Central Area churches to the Seattle Center Arena for a rally with comedian and activist Dick Gregory. The Seattle Urban League, the Seattle Council of Churches and other church, civic, and social organizations endorsed and participated…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.05
Date:1969
Image of Police line and protesters at Edison South, Seattle, Seattle, May 23, 1969
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Police line and protesters at Edison South, Seattle, Seattle, May 23, 1969

In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.06
Date:1969
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