770 results for: Activism
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Ida Daly at Center Park Apartments for the Handicapped, Seattle, September 1979
Ida May Daly, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed muscular dystrophy at age three. While this progressive disease weakened her muscles and confined her to a wheelchair in her thirties, it challenged her to become a tireless advocate for disabled people. In the 1950s, she worked with the Seattle Parks Department to found and run the Handicapped Center, which provided…
ID Number:2000.107.044.037.02
Date:1979
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Ida Daly in her office with Hazel Flagler Begeman, Seattle, August 1973
Ida May Flagler Daly, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, developed muscular dystrophy at age three. While this progressive disease weakened her muscles and confined her to a wheelchair in her thirties, it challenged her to become a tireless advocate for people with disabilities. In the 1950s, she worked with the Seattle Parks Department to found and run the Handicapped Center,…
ID Number:2000.107.044.037.03
Date:1973
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Jeff Davis, Seattle, 1941
Jeff Davis (1883-1968) was an itinerant worker and self-described “King of the Hoboes.” Starting around 1900 Davis traveled extensively across the world. As was common among poor or homeless travelers in the early 20th century, he often hitchhiked or stowed away on trains, buses, or ships. He worked as he traveled, taking odd jobs when he could. In 1913, Davis…
ID Number:2000.107.045.34.01
Date:1941
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Jeff Davis, Seattle, 1953
Jeff Davis (1883-1968) was an itinerant worker and self-described “King of the Hoboes.” Starting around 1900 Davis traveled extensively across the world. As was common among poor or homeless travelers in the early 20th century, he often hitchhiked or stowed away on trains, buses, or ships. He worked as he traveled, taking odd jobs when he could. In 1913, Davis…
ID Number:2000.107.045.34.02
Date:1953
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Jeff Davis looking at newspaper photos of himself, Seattle, May 1952
Jeff Davis (1883-1968) was an itinerant worker and self-described “King of the Hoboes.” Starting around 1900 Davis traveled extensively across the world. As was common among poor or homeless travelers in the early 20th century, he often hitchhiked or stowed away on trains, buses, or ships. He worked as he traveled, taking odd jobs when he could. In 1913, Davis…
ID Number:2000.107.045.34.03
Date:1952
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Earl Debnam in front of Colman School, Seattle, July 1990
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2000.107.046.22.01
Date:1990
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Earl Debnam in front of Colman School, February 16, 1993
In 1985, a group of Black activists led by Charlie James, Earl Debnam, Omari Tahir-Garrett, and Michael Greenwood began occupying the abandoned Colman School in the Central Area in order to pressure the city to renovate it into a museum of African-American history. Despite the building's lack of heat and running water, the occupiers stayed for eight years, making this…
ID Number:2000.107.046.22.02
Date:1993
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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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Brock Evans, Mike Lowry, and Jim Whittaker on environmental walk, Seattle, May 3, 1982
Environmental advocate Brock Evans (1937-), Representative Mike Lowry (1939-2017), and mountaineer Jim Whittaker (1929-), left to right, walk the final two miles of a week-long, 87-mile trek from the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area to Gas Works Park. The walk was sponsored by more than 30 environmental groups to protest oil and gas leasing in wilderness areas. Caption information source: The…
ID Number:2000.107.047.30.01
Date:1982
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Army veterans at meeting to save the Public Health Hospital, Seattle, April 24, 1981
Army veterans August Mac Key (left) and Henry Wallace are "in full support of the cause" to save the Public Health Hospital. They were among about 250 people who showed up to tell two Seattle congressmen, U. S. Representatives Mike Lowry (1939-2017) and Joel Pritchard (1925-1997), that the hospital should stay open. Caption information source: The Seattle Times, April 25,…
ID Number:2000.107.047.31.01
Date:1981