426 results for: Civil Rights
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Oral history interview with Ewen Dingwall, January 23, 1985
Interview with Ewen C. Dingwall, the executive secretary to Mayor William Devin during World War II, conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on January 23, 1985. Topics discussed include Japanese American incarceration, civil defense volunteering, and wartime efforts to expand the Seattle Planning Commission's mission to include long-term planning. He also discusses his…
ID Number:1985.134.5
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Morris Alhadeff, September 1985
Morris “Morrie” Alhadeff (1914-1994) was General Manager and Chairman of the Board of the Longacres Racetrack in Renton, Washington. Alhadeff began working at Longacres in 1947 and took over running running the facility after Longacres founder (and Alhadeff’s father-in-law) Joseph Gottstein died in 1970. He and his wife, Joan Gottstein Alhadeff, were strong supporters of civil rights, and great patrons…
ID Number:1985.135.1
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Kenneth Fisher, April 23, 1985
Kenneth Robinson Fisher (1906-1999) was the grandson of O.W. (Oliver Williams) Fisher, founder and owner of Seattle’s Fisher Flour Mill. Fisher built his mill, the largest in the west, on the newly constructed Harbor Island in Elliott Bay at the mouth of the Duwamish waterway, one of the first industrial businesses to open on the island. Fisher ran the business…
ID Number:1985.135.10
Date:1985
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Black delegation meeting with officials at City Hall after Larry Ward shooting, Seattle, May 19, 1970
On May 15, 1970, a Seattle police officer shot and killed Larry Eugene Ward (1947-1970) as he fled from police after attempting to light a bomb fuse at Hardcastle Realty at 23rd Avenue and Union Street in the Central Area. Police were alerted to the attempt by the FBI, who had been watching the property, expecting Black Panther involvement in…
ID Number:1986.5.1066.4
Date:1970
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Protest march to City Hall after Larry Ward killing, May 19, 1970
On May 15, 1970, a Seattle police officer shot and killed Larry Eugene Ward (1947-1970) as he fled from police after attempting to light a bomb fuse at Hardcastle Realty at 23rd Avenue and Union Street in the Central Area. Police were alerted to the attempt by the FBI, who had been watching the property, expecting Black Panther involvement in…
ID Number:1986.5.1066.16
Date:1970
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Man with civil defense map of Seattle, 1958
Written on sleeve: Defense, Seattle, air raid drill, Hazel Valley School in Burien Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): May 6, 1958
ID Number:1986.5.2106.4
Date:1958
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Tomas Villanueva with Co-op members at the United Farm Workers Cooperative, Toppenish, Washington, July 1967
In July 1967, Mexican-American farm workers in the Yakima Valley started the United Farm Workers Cooperative in Toppenish. At the time, the Co-op was not affiliated with the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement led by Cesar Chavez. The Co-op sold shares for $5 and by August 1967, 150 families had purchased shares. Co-op prices averaged 7% less than grocery stores…
ID Number:1986.5.2894.1
Date:1967
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Tomas Villanueva at the United Farm Workers Cooperative, Toppenish, Washington, July 1967
In July 1967, Mexican-American farm workers in the Yakima Valley started the United Farm Workers Cooperative in Toppenish. At the time, the Co-op was not affiliated with the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement led by Cesar Chavez. The Co-op sold shares for $5 and by August 1967, 150 families had purchased shares. Co-op prices averaged 7% less than grocery stores…
ID Number:1986.5.2894.2
Date:1967
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Members shopping at the United Farm Workers Cooperative, Toppenish, Washington, July 1967
In July 1967, Mexican-American farm workers in the Yakima Valley started the United Farm Workers Cooperative in Toppenish. At the time, the Co-op was not affiliated with the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement led by Cesar Chavez. The Co-op sold shares for $5 and by August 1967, 150 families had purchased shares. Co-op prices averaged 7% less than grocery stores…
ID Number:1986.5.2894.3
Date:1967
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Dick Gregory at Thurston County Superior Court, Olympia, November 20, 1966
Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory (1932-2017) was a American comedian and civil rights activist who helped call attention to Washington State laws restricting Native American rights. The "fish wars" as they were known at the time, led to the Boldt Decision, a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and catch.In this image Dick Gregory stands outside the courtroom…
ID Number:1986.5.4419.25
Date:1966