497 results for: Women's Rights
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Becky Hobbs at Conferencia - Chicanas en El Movimiento, Seattle, August 22, 1974
In this image of Rebecca "Becky" Hobbs, the University of Washington Minority Affairs Office staff assistant discusses the first annual Conferencia - Chicanas en El Movimiento (Women in the Movement conference), held over three days at El Centro de La Raza on Beacon Hill. The event was an initial step in establishing a state-wide network for job listings, education opportunities,…
ID Number:2000.107.124.38.01
Date:1974
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Marta Cano at Conferencia - Chicanas en El Movimiento, Seattle, August 22, 1974
In this image of Marta Cano, the Seattle Public Schools administrative intern discusses the first annual Conferencia - Chicanas en El Movimiento (Women in the Movement conference) held over three days at El Centro de La Raza on Beacon Hill. "The Chicana is in a double bind. We're treated as a minority within our own culture. People take it for…
ID Number:2000.107.124.38.02
Date:1974
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Women and children on steps of Beacon Hill School during occupation, October 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:2000.107.124.39.17
Date:1972
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Joan Augerot at Conferencia - Chicanas en El Movimiento, Seattle, August 22, 1974
This image of Joan Augerot, a curriculum specialist, was taken at the first annual Conferencia - Chicanas en El Movimiento (Women in the Movement conference), held over three days at El Centro de La Raza on Beacon Hill. Ms. Augerot was a speaker at the conference. The event was an initial step in establishing a state-wide network for job listings,…
ID Number:2000.107.124.40.12
Date:1974
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Sit-in at Mayor Gordon Clinton's office, Seattle, July 1963
On July 1, 1963, after a demonstration of about 400 people on the City Hall plaza, 35 individuals from the Central District Youth Club began a sit-in at Mayor Gordon Clinton's office to protest Clinton's lack of action on an open housing ordinance. This photo shows some of the group of young women and men in the reception area of…
ID Number:2000.107.131.21.15
Date:1963
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Bernardine O'Sullivan working at Boeing, January 15, 1954
In January 1954, Bernardine O'Sullivan, pictured here, was installed as the president of the Local F. Aero-Mechanics Union 751, the first women in the history of the union to hold that position in a local. Bernardine O'Sullivan, a former elementary and high school teacher, started working at Boeing in 1942 as a rivet bucker, and by 1954 was a expert…
ID Number:2000.107.136.28.01
Date:1954
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Bystanders heckling UW Student Peace Union picketers, Seattle, October 23, 1962
The Student Peace Union (SPU) was a nationwide student organization active on college campuses in the United States from 1959 to 1964. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, chapters across the country held protests against the nuclear testing they felt would lead to war. After the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963 the SPU, whose identity was bound up…
ID Number:2000.107.141.13.01
Date:1962
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Union supporters picketing at Marie's Cafe in Greenwood, Seattle, August 26, 1974
Marie's Cafe was founded in the early 1940s in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. A successful restaurant for several decades, retail sale of salad dressings developed in the cafe eventually took over the business. Today, Marie's Salad Dressing is a nationally-distributed brand owned by Dean Foods Co.In this image picketers outside Marie's Cafe at Northwest 85th and Greenwood demonstrate support of cafe…
ID Number:2000.107.141.14.02
Date:1974
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Women speaking with Ben Paris billiards room attendant, Seattle, April 3, 1963
In April 1963, two women who worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer went out with a reporter and photographer to test a law recently passed in Washington state. The law stated that, "Woman may pursue any calling open to men," and "May not be excluded from any premises...on account of sex." Though the pair were rebuffed when they tried to apply…
ID Number:2000.107.141.23.01
Date:1963
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Zaid Tesfaion in a class at the Refugee Women's Alliance, Seattle, January 22, 1991
In the early 1990s, refugees arriving in Washington were coming from more and more diverse places. In the 1980s, most arrived from Southeast Asia, fleeing the ongoing effects of the Vietnam War. By contrast, in 1991 the state estimated that fewer than half of incoming refugees came from Southeast Asia. About 42 percent were Jews or Pentecostalists arriving from the…
ID Number:2000.107.151.05.04
Date:1991