513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Marchers protesting infringements on Native fishing rights, Seattle, May 12, 1979
Beginning with treaties in 1854 and 1855, Native American tribes of Washington ceded their land to the United States but had reserved the right to fish as they had always done, including fishing at traditional locations that were off the designated reservations. Over time, the state of Washington had infringed on the treaty rights of the tribes despite losing a…
ID Number:2000.107.096.03.01
Date:1979
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Demonstrators in favor of Native fishing rights at Washington State Capitol, Olympia, September 5, 1968
In the 1960s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:2000.107.096.09.01
Date:1968
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Ron Johnson and John Caughlan at protest rally, Seattle, March 2, 1975
In this image, Seattle Black Panther Party member Ron Johnson and attorney and civil libertarian John Caughlan speak at a rally protesting the shooting death of Joe Hebert, a 22-year old Black man killed by a Seattle police officer on February 15. Caughlan was the attorney for the Hebert family, and Ron Johnson was head of the "Justice for Joe…
ID Number:2000.107.100.18.01
Date:1975
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Ron Johnson speaking at rally on killing of Joseph Hebert, Seattle, March 6, 1975
In this image, Seattle Black Panther Party representative Ron Johnson speaks at a Central Area rally protesting the shooting death of Joe Hebert, a 22-year old Black man killed by a Seattle police officer. Johnson was Minister of Information for the Black Panthers, and the head of the "Justice for Joe Committee" organized by the Party. Caption information source: "Fire…
ID Number:2000.107.100.18.02
Date:1975
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Rev. Leon Jones and Rev. Samuel B. McKinney arrested at protest against South Africa, Seattle, December 9, 1984
When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s,…
ID Number:2000.107.101.07.01
Date:1984
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Roberto Maestas being escorted out of mayor's office, Seattle, April 5, 1973
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 75-day…
ID Number:2000.107.117.04.02
Date:1973
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Hazel McKinney on the Shoalwater Bay reservation, March 10, 1993
At the time this photograph was taken, Hazel McKinney, aged 77, was the only person over 70 among the 150 members of Washington state’s Shoalwater Bay tribe. A former tribal health advocate, she actively protested the tribe’s difficulties having to use the Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic on the Quinault reservation, over eighty miles away over back roads. In addition…
ID Number:2000.107.122.34.01
Date:1993
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Russell Means and Hank Adams at press conference, Seattle, October 6, 1972
In 1972, American Indian Movement (AIM) activists Dennis Banks (1937-2017), Ojibwe, and Russell Charles Means (1939-2012), Oglala Sioux, along with members of the Rosebud Sioux, organized the Trail of Broken Treaties and Pan American Native Quest for Justice, a caravan of automobiles that would cross the nation in a political protest concluding at the White House. On October 6th, three…
ID Number:2000.107.123.30.01
Date:1970
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Amanda Van Orden protesting Metro pollution, Seattle, May 18, 1989
In this image Yelm resident Amanda Van Orden was one of 400 protesting outside the Metro Council chambers at 720 Third Avenue in downtown Seattle. The demonstration was in support of salmon in the Nisqually River rather than the proposed runoff from a Metro plan to spray sewage sludge on 2,200 acres of Thurston County forest land near the river.…
ID Number:2000.107.124.28.01
Date:1989
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Isidoro Gonzales working in kitchen during occupation of Beacon Hill School, October 18, 1972
Seattle had a growing Latino population in the late 1960s, and activists had been pressing the city for a building in which to establish a Chicano community center. Tired of having their requests ignored, in October 1972 they took over the abandoned Beacon Hill School on 16th Avenue South and renamed it El Centro de la Raza. After a 75-day…
ID Number:2000.107.124.39.01
Date:1972