108 results for: Judicial and Legal Systems
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Oral history interview with Alfred Schweppe, April 1985, January 1986
Alfred J. Schweppe (1895-1988) came to Seattle from Minnesota as a young lawyer. At age 31, he became dean of the University of Washington School of Law, and three years later, opened a private practice. In 1933 Schweppe, who was instrumental in drafting the State Bar Act, served as the first executive secretary of the newly formed Washington State Bar…
ID Number:1985.135.24
Date:1985
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Oral history interview with Willard Wright, July 15, 1985
Willard J. Wright (1914-1997) was a Seattle lawyer at the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. A Seattle native, he attended the Lakeside School, graduating in 1932. He was a longtime trustee of Lakeside beginning in 1938 and was involved in the selection of the new headmaster after the sudden death of Headmaster Robert Adams in 1950. In this interview, Wright…
ID Number:1985.135.31
Date:1985
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Jack McCutcheon at Pierce County Courthouse, Tacoma, March 2, 1964
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:1986.5.4414.8
Date:1964
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Marlon Brando at Pierce County jail, Tacoma, March 2, 1964
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:1986.5.4414.10
Date:1964
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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
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Nine inmates at graduation ceremony at McNeil Island Penitentiary, June 1967
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:1986.5.5490.1
Date:1967
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Aaron Dixon and Trolice Flavors at court hearing for Franklin High School sit-in, Seattle, 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:1986.5.11579.11
Date:1968
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Franklin High School sit-in defendants leaving prison, Seattle, 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:1986.5.11580.6
Date:1968
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Central Area youth with Ed Devine at Mayor's office, August 20, 1965
On August 19 and 20, 1965, a group of nine youths from the Central Area Youth Action Council occupied the reception area outside Mayor Dorm Braman's office in attempt to speak with the mayor. On both days, the mayor's administrative assistant, Ed Devine, told the group the mayor was expected to be out all day. The group made several requests…
ID Number:1986.5.18799.9
Date:1965
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Lem Howell at inquest into police shooting of Larry Ward, Seattle, May 22, 1970
On May 15, 1970, a Seattle police officer shot and killed Larry Eugene Ward (1947-1970), a Black man, 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…
ID Number:1986.5.52333.3A
Date:1970