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New Hope Baptist Church pastors at local dry cleaner, October 8, 1992
Rev. Dr. Robert Jeffrey served nine years as Senior Pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA before relocating to Seattle in 1986 to become the Senior Pastor of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where he still serves as of 2019. Throughout his career, Jeffrey has advocated for those locked out of economic opportunity. In 1988, Jeffrey founded the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.35.04
Date:1992
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Charles Johnson speaking about new book, "Oxherding Tale," Seattle, October 1982
Charles Richard Johnson (b. 1948) was born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist and illustrator. Johnson received a B.S. in journalism in 1971, an M.A. in philosophy in 1973, and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1988. As a novelist, Johnson stated that his goal was to contribute to and…
ID Number:2000.107.099.31.01
Date:1982
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Charles Johnson in his UW English Department office, Seattle, November 13, 1990
Charles Richard Johnson (b. 1948) was born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist and illustrator.Johnson received a B.S. in journalism in 1971, an M.A. in philosophy in 1973, and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1988. As a novelist, Johnson stated that his goal was to contribute to and enrich…
ID Number:2000.107.099.31.02
Date:1990
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Charles Johnson speaking about new book, "Middle Passage," Seattle, November 13, 1990
Charles Richard Johnson (b. 1948) was born in 1948 in Evanston, Illinois. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a political cartoonist and illustrator. Johnson received a B.S. in journalism in 1971, an M.A. in philosophy in 1973, and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1988. As a novelist, Johnson stated that his goal was to contribute to and…
ID Number:2000.107.099.31.03
Date:1990
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Charles V. Johnson speaking about the need for open housing legislation, Seattle, March 3, 1964
Charles Vernon Johnson (b. 1928) was raised in Arkansas and moved to Seattle in 1954 to attend law school at the University of Washington. Upon graduation, Mr. Johnson went into private practice, and shortly thereafter took on leading roles in both the Seattle Branch of the NAACP and in the Central Area Civil Rights Organization. He was heavily involved in…
ID Number:2000.107.099.31.04
Date:1964
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Officers of Citizens Advisory Council for Model Cities posing together, Seattle, January 13, 1969
In response to urban problems of poverty and race in the United States, in November 1966 Congress initiated the Model Cities Program. The program's objectives were to reduce social and economic disadvantages in designated neighborhoods, provide training and employment opportunities, and establish health services for residents. Financial and technical assistance was made available to cities through the Department of Housing…
ID Number:2000.107.099.31.05
Date:1969
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Ron Johnson and John Caughlan at protest rally, Seattle, March 2, 1975
In this image, Seattle Black Panther Party member Ron Johnson and attorney and civil libertarian John Caughlan speak at a rally protesting the shooting death of Joe Hebert, a 22-year old Black man killed by a Seattle police officer on February 15. Caughlan was the attorney for the Hebert family, and Ron Johnson was head of the "Justice for Joe…
ID Number:2000.107.100.18.01
Date:1975
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Ron Johnson speaking at rally on killing of Joseph Hebert, Seattle, March 6, 1975
In this image, Seattle Black Panther Party representative Ron Johnson speaks at a Central Area rally protesting the shooting death of Joe Hebert, a 22-year old Black man killed by a Seattle police officer. Johnson was Minister of Information for the Black Panthers, and the head of the "Justice for Joe Committee" organized by the Party. Caption information source: "Fire…
ID Number:2000.107.100.18.02
Date:1975
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Rev. Leon Jones and Rev. Samuel B. McKinney arrested at protest against South Africa, Seattle, December 9, 1984
When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s,…
ID Number:2000.107.101.07.01
Date:1984
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Rex Jones teaching management trainees, Seattle, August 16, 1967
The Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, or SOIC (pronounced "So I see") was established in 1966, largely through a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal agency funding "war on poverty" programs. Modeled after the original OIC started by a Philadelphia minister two years earlier, the community-based program recruited, trained and placed unemployed people in the labor market. The…
ID Number:2000.107.101.12.01
Date:1967