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Sandbag fortification at Black Panther headquarters, Seattle, 1971
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:2000.107.022.21.03
Date:1971
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Alexander Chau, left, welcomes his family from Vietnam, Seattle, July 16, 1977
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 the Chau family in Seattle. From left: son Alexander, daughter Le Phuong,…
ID Number:2000.107.034.29.01
Date:1977
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Army veterans at meeting to save the Public Health Hospital, Seattle, April 24, 1981
Army veterans August Mac Key (left) and Henry Wallace are "in full support of the cause" to save the Public Health Hospital. They were among about 250 people who showed up to tell two Seattle congressmen, U. S. Representatives Mike Lowry (1939-2017) and Joel Pritchard (1925-1997), that the hospital should stay open. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, April 25,…
ID Number:2000.107.047.31.01
Date:1981
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Perry Watkins speaking at Pride Week rally, Seattle, June 26, 1983
Tacoma native Perry Watkins (1948-1996), a U. S. Army sergeant who fought a legal battle with the military over his homosexuality, speaks at a rally in Freeway Park after about 2,000 gay right supporters marched through downtown Seattle. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, June 27, 1983, page 25Caption information source: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/21/nyregion/perry-watkins-48-gay-sergeant-won-court-battle-with-army.htmlCaption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.01
Date:1983
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Maryamu Eltayeb protesting outside Federal Building against US invasion of Grenada, October 26, 1983
In October 1983, the United States invaded the nation of Grenada in the aftermath of a coup there. The invasion immediately provoked opposition in the US, with many demonstrators protesting against what they saw as another Vietnam War. Many who protested against the Grenada invasion were also active in movements to end US military intervention elsewhere, especially El Salvador. This…
ID Number:2000.107.047.32.04
Date:1983
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Peace activists demonstrating outside Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, January 7, 1991
In this photo, Randy Rowland, a Vietnam veteran from Seattle, leads about 50 protesters in anti-war chants during a peace march in front of the Sand Point Naval Air Station. Also at the rally were members of the Warren Davis Defense Committee, a group organized in support of the Seattle Navy reservist awaiting court-martial for desertion. Davis, who had sought…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.04
Date:1991
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Hoang Xuan Thuy and family at Sea-Tac Airport, January 17, 1990
South Vietnam fell to the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975. After ten years of negotiation between the Communist regime and the US government, the US agreed to accept some of the former South Vietnamese officials and military personnel who had spent years in North Vietnamese “reeducation” camps. Their families were allowed to come with them.Hoang Xuan Thu, a South…
ID Number:2000.107.089.21.01
Date:1990
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Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island in back of military truck, March 31, 1942
In this image Seijiro Nakamura, second from left, and his children are shown seated in an army truck with Private Tony Bova. The elderly man on the right is Kihachi Hirakawa, pastor of the Japanese church at Winslow. The minister had held his final services three days before in the church he built with is own labor more than forty…
ID Number:2000.107.098.21.01
Date:1942
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Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa waiting for bus during forced removal, 1942
This image shows Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa, who had been married three months, awaiting their turn to board the bus for the train that will carry them to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in southern Idaho, where they would be incarcerated until 1945.On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President…
ID Number:2000.107.098.22.01
Date:1942
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Child waiting to be taken to an incarceration camp during WWII, November 30, 1942
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration at camps in Idaho and…
ID Number:2000.107.098.22.02
Date:1942