1189 results for: Black/African American
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Thelma Dewitty, March 22, 1972
Thelma Dewitty (1912-1977) joined the faculty of Seattle Public Schools in September 1947, one of the first two Black teachers hired by the district. Dewitty previously taught in Texas for 14 years, but segregationist policies there prevented her from attending graduate school, and she moved to Seattle to study at the University of Washington. Dewitty was hired in 1947 to…
ID Number:2000.107.049.03.02
Date:1972
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants arriving at court, April 5, 1968
In March of 1968 two Black students, cousins Charles Oliver and Trolice Flavors, where suspended from Seattle's Franklin High School after an altercation with a white student, who was not reprimanded. Franklin's outraged Black students, with the help of UW Black Student Union (BSU) activists Carl Miller, Aaron Dixon, and Larry Gossett, planned a peaceful demonstration at the school to…
ID Number:2000.107.049.31.01
Date:1968
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Portrait of Aaron Dixon, Seattle, September 1, 1988
Aaron Dixon was born in Chicago, and grew up in Seattle's Central District. His father worked at Boeing, and both parents taught Aaron and his brothers the importance of fighting for social justice. As a college student at the University of Washington, Dixon played a key role in the formation of the Black Student Union (BSU) and the Seattle Chapter…
ID Number:2000.107.049.31.02
Date:1988
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.02
Date:1979
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.03
Date:1979
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1968
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.09
Date:1968
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Elmer Dixon speaking against Youth Patrol proposal, Seattle, March 1, 1968
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.10
Date:1968
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Oscar Eason, Jr. speaking at NAACP chapter meeting, Seattle, August 25, 1986
Oscar Eason, Jr. (1930-2017) was a longtime civil-rights leader and community activist in Seattle, who broke down workplace barriers and fought for social justice. Eason moved to Seattle in 1958 from San Antonio, Texas, to work as a mechanical engineer at the Boeing Company, then in 1962 took a job working for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Eason served…
ID Number:2000.107.053.26.01
Date:1986
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Models pose in Afro-American fashions, Seattle, November 14, 1969
An Afro-American fashion show by the Zebra Boutique was featured in a luncheon at the Pacific Science Center as part of the Congress of the Arts, a series of meetings on key issues in the arts and education. The models in this image from the fashion show are identified as, from left to right, Donna Rhodes, Lisa Skinner, Cheryl Gibbs,…
ID Number:2000.107.060.18.01
Date:1969
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High school students wearing "X" hats, Seattle, March 10, 1992
Rainier Beach High School students Deltrinee Owens, left, and Domico Curry, right, wear "X" hats as they sit with friends Tianna Scott and Ruthetta Lee. The hats were popular tie-ins to film director Spike Lee's biopic "Malcolm X," released on November 18, 1992. Caption information source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/11/04/the-marketing-of-malcolm-x/39951a24-810b-4be1-906c-9a4c980525db/?utm_term=.b2c3703833d9Caption information also derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of…
ID Number:2000.107.060.35.02
Date:1992