3221 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Binh Huynh with training diploma, Seattle, December 17, 1982
In 1982 the Asian Counseling and Referral Service in Seattle ran a 15-week vocational and language course to help Southeast Asian refugees in the Seattle area become more independent. Students took English class each morning, and a class in vocational skills each afternoon, to prepare them for employment as janitors or custodians. Here, Binh Huynh displays the diploma he received…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.02
Date:1982
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Bao Chao with South Vietnamese flag at Hing Hay Park, Seattle, May 1, 1982
On May 1, 1982, people who had been refugees from Vietnam marched in Hing Hay Park in Seattle's Chinatown - International District to protest Soviet involvement in Vietnam and El Salvador. The marchers carried signs and banners, and many also carried South Vietnamese flags. Here, 4-year old Bao Chao hands her flag to her father, George Dao, so she can…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.03
Date:1982
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Demonstrators marching at Hing Hay Park, Seattle, May 1, 1982
On May 1, 1982, people who had been refugees from Vietnam marched in Hing Hay Park in Seattle's Chinatown - International District to protest Soviet involvement in Vietnam and El Salvador. The marchers carried signs and banners, and many also carried South Vietnamese flags. Here, holding a flag, 11-year-old Hien Le rests on a bench while the protestors march around…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.04
Date:1982
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Dai Vu and his brother looking at family photo, Seattle, October 14, 1979
Ten-year-old Dai Vu, from Vietnam, arrived in the US in August 1979 with his father and two older siblings after living in a Malaysian refugee camp for 5 months. All of the family's money went into the boat passage for the four, and Dai's mother and younger siblings had to be left behind. In Seattle, Dai attended school at Lake…
ID Number:2000.107.220.22.05
Date:1979
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Elma Villanueva at the Fremont Public Association Food Bank, August 2, 1989
In the summer of 1989, neighborhood food banks in Seattle experienced a severe shortage of supplies. Food donations usually lessen in the summer, and that year was especially bad because of an 81-day strike by grocery workers that ended on July 30. Grocery stores were less willing to donate, and striking workers began going to food banks themselves, which placed…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.01
Date:1989
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Tomás Villanueva at United Farm Workers office, Granger, May 3, 1989
Tomás Villanueva (1941-2014) was a labor activist who spent decades advocating for the rights and welfare of farmworkers, especially Latino migrant workers. Villanueva was born in Monterrey in northern Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. The Villanueva family settled in Toppenish, Washington in 1958 after traveling across the US following farm work for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.02
Date:1989
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Tomás Villanueva speaking at press conference, Seattle, October 29, 1987
Tomás Villanueva (1941-2014) was a labor activist who spent decades advocating for the rights and welfare of farmworkers, especially Latino migrant workers. Villanueva was born in Monterrey in northern Mexico and immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. The Villanueva family settled in Toppenish, Washington in 1958 after traveling across the US following farm work for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.23.03
Date:1987
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Vinh Duc Vu and Hoi Ba Tran working on Vietnamese-language newspaper, Seattle, August 1975
In August 1975, the first Vietnamese-language newspaper in Washington state headed to the press. The free, bimonthly tabloid, Dat Moi (“New Land”) was to be mailed to 1500 Washington refugees and their American sponsors. It was sponsored by the national Vietnamese-American Association and was funded by the WA State Department of Emergency Services and the Catholic Archdiocese. Plans were for…
ID Number:2000.107.220.25.01
Date:1975
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Crowd of voters at the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, November 3, 1948
On November 3, 1948, Seattle voters crowded polling places, including one at the Seattle Art Museum. Here, voters at the museum wait patiently in line to enter voting booths to vote for President, Governor and state office holders. Voting time was limited to two minutes. Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times: November 3, p. 1.Caption information also derived from…
ID Number:2000.107.220.40.01
Date:1948
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Demonstration of punch-card voting machine, Seattle, March 25, 1969
On March 29, 1969 over 4,500 Seattle residents went to the polls to elect the 16-member Central Area School Council. This was the first community council elected to help the Seattle School Board run an attendance area’s schools. It was also the city’s first computer-assisted election, and it used IBM Votomatic machines, on loan from Clark County, WA. After the…
ID Number:2000.107.220.41.01
Date:1969