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Central Area Cooperative supermarket at 23rd and Madison, Seattle, March 29, 1969
The first Central Area Cooperative supermarket opened in Seattle on Empire Way South (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) near South Dearborn Street. Formerly a chain store, the market opened on September 7, 1968 as a cooperative. The private corporation sold stock to the public for $5 a share, with each member having one vote. A large percentage of the…
ID Number:2000.107.131.21.25
Date:1969
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Highline College Afro-American Society members at press conference, May 21, 1968
On May 21, 1968, a group of students from the Afro-American Society at Highline College met with college president Dr. M.A. Allen to discuss a set of demands made by the society, an affiliate of the Congress of Black Student Unions. The college agreed with the students on a number of points, such as the hiring of Black teachers, administrators,…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.01
Date:1968
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Western Governors Conference demonstration, July 31, 1969
In July 1969, a group of Seattle Community College students protested outside the Washington Plaza Hotel, where the Western Governors' Conference was in session. The students, most members of the Black Student Union (BLU) or the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), objected to the appointment by Governor Dan Evans of Marvin Glass to the Board of Trustees of the…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.02
Date:1969
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Two girls crossing street near Madrona School, Seattle, September 1957
On September 4, 1957, Little Rock Central High School became the focus of national attention when the governor of Arkansas deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering the school, in direct opposition to court-ordered integration. Three weeks later President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard to enforce integration of the school. The Guard remained at Central…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.03
Date:1957
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Wilson family with Better Yards Roundup trophy, September 13, 1967
The Seattle Housing Authority's Better Yards Roundup contest awarded prizes each September for the most attractive yards in its four public housing communities. This photo shows the winners of the 13th annual Better Yards Roundup in 1967, the Walter Wilson family. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and their four children, Reginald, Cynthia, Patricia, and Lionel, receive a trophy from Dick Barney,…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.04
Date:1967
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Garfield students performing "Walking Stereotypes" in C.A.M.P. class, July 11, 1967
Seattle's Central Area Motivation Program (CAMP), co-sponsored by the Central Area Community Council and the Seattle Urban League, was founded in 1967, funded as part of President Johnson's War on Poverty program. Its mission has been to reduce the impact of poverty with all of its related problems. Renamed Centerstone in 2012, the organization has assisted, through many programs and…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.06
Date:1967
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Infanta Spence and other Central Area activists at press conference, August 11, 1967
On August 2, 1967, Governor Dan Evans visited the Central Area of Seattle and listened to members of the Black community, meeting first with community leaders at the Sorrento Hotel, and later with the youth community at the Y.M.C.A. Some of the young people present agreed to develop proposals for action, and in the following days formed a group called…
ID Number:2000.107.131.22.07
Date:1967
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Keve Bray at panel discussion at Seattle University, December 3, 1967
Seattle actor, businessman, and political activist Keve Bray (1925-1972) played an essential role in the local civil rights movement and is especially notable for his role in the Black power movement in the Central District. As early as 1964, he spoke out against the integrationist stance of many civil rights leaders, and by 1968, Bray had become a leader of…
ID Number:2000.107.131.24.01
Date:1967
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William H. (Bill) Neukom, Seattle, August 1980
Born in Chicago and raised in San Mateo Park, CA, Bill Neukom led an active life in law, higher education, philanthropy, and baseball. After graduating from Dartmouth and Stanford Law School, Neukom moved to Seattle, serving as a law clerk in the King County Superior Court before starting private practice. Through the American Bar Association, he met Bill Gates, Sr.,…
ID Number:2000.107.132.04.01
Date:1980
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Baptist missionary Hanh Nguyen with Giu Vo and her family in their apartment, Seattle, March 1982
After the Vietnam War ended in April 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam to North Vietnamese communist forces, many thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos fled violence and persecution in their home countries and sought refuge in the United States and elsewhere.This image shows a family of refugees in their apartment shortly after arriving in Seattle. Hanh…
ID Number:2000.107.132.14.01
Date:1982