38 results for: Cold War, 1947-1991
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Program for Paul Robeson concert at Seattle Civic Auditorium, May 20, 1952
On May 20, 1952, American actor and singer Paul Robeson overcame blacklisting, a press blackout, and a City Council ban to perform at the Seattle Civic Auditorium in a "Peoples Program" presented by the Seattle Chapter of the National Negro Labor Council.A civil rights activist and anti-fascist sympathetic to communism, Robeson was investigated and blacklisted beginning in the late 1940s.…
ID Number:1998.4.2
Date:1952
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Judy Balint protesting at "Soviet Woman" exhibit at Pacific Science Center, Seattle, May 13, 1979
On Mothers Day in 1979, five members of the group Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry, wearing t-shirts reading "Free Soviet Jews," picketed outside the Pacific Science Center to protest the touring exhibit "Soviet Woman." Established in 1975 in help Jews in the Soviet Union, Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry sent aid, gifts and letters to the USSR, and worked to…
ID Number:2000.107.013.05.01
Date:1979
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Baba Jeanne Mangaoang speaking at Congressional hearing, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1954
Baba Jeanne "B.J." (Sears) Mangaoang (1915-2007) was a Seattle woman who remained active in Communist Party (CP) politics, the fight against the Red Scare, and advocated for peace and social justice throughout her life. She was introduced to the CP as a student at the University of Washington in the early 1930s, formally joining the Party in 1938. She worked…
ID Number:2000.107.046.27.01
Date:1954
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Seattle Totems and Soviet hockey teams shaking hands, December 25, 1972
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.089.26.02
Date:1972
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Petr Nedvěd with Russ Farwell after signing with Seattle Thunderbirds, August 2, 1989
The Seattle Thunderbirds are a junior ice hockey team in the Western Hockey League. In Seattle since 1977, the team was called the Seattle Breakers through the 1984-85 season, when it was bought by new owners and renamed the Thunderbirds. The Thunderbirds’ home arena is the ShoWare Center in Kent, and they were champions of the Western Hockey League in…
ID Number:2000.107.089.35.01
Date:1989
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Victor Kuzkin carrying Annette Daggett before Totems-USSR hockey game, December 25, 1972
The Seattle Totems were a minor league professional ice hockey team in Seattle from 1944 to 1975, playing at the Civic Ice Arena and later the Seattle Center Coliseum. The team had several names in its first years – the Seattle Ironmen (1944-52), the Seattle Bombers (1952-54), and the Seattle Americans (1955-58) – before settling on the name Seattle Totems…
ID Number:2000.107.090.03.02
Date:1972
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Suzie Ordogh receiving Americanism Medal at Seattle World's Fair, September 16, 1962
September 16, 1962 marked I Am an American Day at the Seattle World’s Fair. After the speeches and the naturalization of some 100 new citizens, Seattle swimmer Zsuszu (“Susanna," “Suzie,” “Susie”) Ordogh received an “Americanism medal” from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Ordogh, at age 16, was one of 40 Hungarian athletes who had defected during the 1956…
ID Number:2000.107.136.15.01
Date:1962
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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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March against admitting the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, Seattle, September 21, 1971
When the U.N. General Assembly opened its 1971 session in September 1971, a proposal was made to replace the Republic of China (Taiwan) with the People’s Republic of China (Mainland China). In Seattle, some two dozen Chinese people and allies protested the proposal by marching down Third Avenue from Virginia Street to Yesler Way. They called Mainland China an aggressor…
ID Number:2000.107.153.14.02
Date:1971
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Trisha Marymoon protesting at Federal Building, Seattle, August 6, 1976
In this image, Seattle police Sgt. F.J. Johnson looks on as Trisha Marymoon of Vancouver, B.C., dressed in white and soaked with blood, sits inside a metal cage in front of the Federal Office Building at 915 2nd Avenue. The artist was marking the 31st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and protesting the building of the Trident submarine at…
ID Number:2000.107.153.18.01
Date:1976