653 results for: Urban
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Powell Barnett and Katherine Conna Barnett on their golden wedding anniversary, Seattle, August 23, 1956
Powell S. Barnett (1883-1971) was a Seattle-based musician, baseball player, civil rights activist, and African American community leader. Barnett married Katherine Conna (1890-1971) of the pioneering John N. Conna family in 1906, and the couple settled in Seattle. Powell Barnett organized the Leschi Improvement Council and became its first president in 1967, led in organizing the East Madison YMCA and…
ID Number:2000.107.014.21.03
Date:1956
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Cris Bruch working on "Crusade" at Lenora Street overpass, Seattle, June 26, 1991
Cris Bruch is an artist who lives and works on Vashon Island. His work has been shown across the United States and he has been commissioned to build public art sculptures for the University of Washington, North Seattle College, and Sound Transit, among others. Bruch has received several awards for his work, including a Northwest Major Works Award, the Betty…
ID Number:2000.107.028.20.01
Date:1991
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Bertha Pitts Campbell, Seattle, January 1981
Bertha Pitts Campbell (1889-1990) was a Seattle civil rights activist. She was born in Kansas and grew up in Colorado. During her studies at Howard University, Campbell founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority with 21 other women. Delta Sigma Theta is a historically Black sorority and it advocates for civil rights, especially educational opportunities for Black people. Campbell moved to…
ID Number:2000.107.031.12.01
Date:1981
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Bertha Pitts Campbell sitting, Seattle, January 1981
Bertha Pitts Campbell (1889-1990) was a Seattle civil rights activist. She was born in Kansas and grew up in Colorado. During her studies at Howard University, Campbell founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority with 21 other women. Delta Sigma Theta is a historically Black sorority and it advocates for civil rights, especially educational opportunities for Black people. Campbell moved to…
ID Number:2000.107.031.12.02
Date:1981
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Vivian Caver, Seattle, September 9, 1975
Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing…
ID Number:2000.107.033.27.01
Date:1975
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Vivian Caver at press conference, Seattle, February 1980
Vivian Caver (1928-2021) was a civil rights activist from Seattle. She was born in Tennessee and grew up in Washington. While a student at the University of Washington, Caver worked for the Seattle Urban League as it fought to integrate department store workforces in Seattle. In the 1960s, she set up race relations councils in white neighborhoods to make housing…
ID Number:2000.107.033.27.02
Date:1980
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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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Betty Shellman marching in support of health-care reform, Seattle, June 5, 1991
Betty Shellman, a member of the Puget Sound Council of Senior Citizens, joins more than 400 other protesters who convened at the office of King County Medical Blue Shield at 1800 Ninth Avenue as part of a nationwide health action week during which consumer and labor groups called attention to obstacles facing national health-care reform. Caption information source: The Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.02
Date:1991
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Japanese lantern ceremony at Green Lake, Seattle, August 7, 1991
In this image, a volunteer from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility helps launch Japanese lanterns to commemorate the U. S. dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The event, held near the Bathhouse Theatre on Green Lake and called "From Hiroshima to Hope," attracted more than 1,000 people. It was patterned after…
ID Number:2000.107.048.01.03
Date:1991