3251 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, checking production at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.23
Date:1973
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Juanita Collins, chemical engineer, at a desk at the Monsanto Corporation plant, Seattle, December 16, 1973
Juanita Jean Collins Neitling (b. 1936), an enrolled member of the Yakama tribe, was the first woman to be hired as a chemical engineer by the Seattle branch of the Monsanto Corporation. Neitling (at the time going by Collins) had spent ten years raising children and working in the home before returning to college to study chemical engineering at the…
ID Number:2000.107.19731216.1.30
Date:1973
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Poet-composer Jody Aliesan and playwright Gloria Albee, Seattle, January 14, 1974
In January and February 1974, the Women Studies program at the University of Washington presented a seven-part winter series. Some 200–250 local and out-of-state attendees were expected. The weekly series kicked off with a play reading, music, and poetry before moving on to presentations on sociology, anthropology, and other academic topics.The first program featured Jody Aliesan and Gloria Albee. Albee,…
ID Number:2000.107.19740114.1.13
Date:1974
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Cleveland High School African Ensemble dancing at Colman Elementary School, Seattle, January 14, 1974
Seattle schools were closed on January 15, 1974, for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but they held commemorations of his achievements and presentations of African culture on the previous day. Here, in one of the 1974 programs, Cleveland High School’s African Ensemble dances for students at Colman Elementary school. Caption information source: “Dr. King Honored; Schools Closed Today”, Seattle…
ID Number:2000.107.19740114.3.25A
Date:1974
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League of Women Voters members outside Washington State Capitol, Olympia, January 1974
In January 1974, a group of about 90 members of the Seattle chapter of the League of Women Voters (LWV) made their annual trip to Olympia to sit in on sessions of the Washington House of Representatives and Senate. They also spoke to Governor Dan Evans and met with several legislators representing their districts. The League members' highest priorities were…
ID Number:2000.107.19740129.1.23A
Date:1974
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League of Women Voters members speaking to Representative Peggy Joan Maxie, Olympia, January 1974
In January 1974, a group of about 90 members of the Seattle chapter of the League of Women Voters (LWV) made their annual trip to Olympia to sit in on sessions of the Washington House of Representatives and Senate. They also spoke to Governor Dan Evans and met with several legislators representing their districts. The League members' highest priorities were…
ID Number:2000.107.19740129.1.25A
Date:1974
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League of Women Voters listening to Dan Evans, Olympia, January 1974
In January 1974, a group of about 90 members of the Seattle chapter of the League of Women Voters (LWV) made their annual trip to Olympia to sit in on sessions of the Washington House of Representatives and Senate. They also spoke to Governor Dan Evans and met with several legislators representing their districts. The League members' highest priorities were…
ID Number:2000.107.19740129.1.33A
Date:1974
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Peggy Maze, director of Neighbors in Need, announcing run for State Senate, Seattle, June 27, 1974
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Boeing Bust and national economic problems caused severe unemployment and poverty in Seattle and elsewhere. Peggy Maze of Seattle volunteered with an emergency assistance group, Neighbors in Need, and later became its director. NIN grew into a network of 80 food banks in 20 Washington counties. The project was so successful that…
ID Number:2000.107.19740628.1.22A
Date:1974
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Harold Spence with a photo of his controversial peace symbol flag, June 28, 1974
In May 1970, 23-year-old Harold Spence taped a peace sign to an American flag and hung it outside his University District apartment to protest the US invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State killings. Spence was arrested and convicted at trial for improperly displaying the flag. Spence eventually petitioned the Supreme Court, which heard the case in January 1974. The…
ID Number:2000.107.19740628.2.08
Date:1974
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Congregation at Mount Zion Baptist Church after murder of Alberta Williams King, Seattle, June 30, 1974
Alberta Williams King (1904-1974) was an activist, organist, and the mother of martyred civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). She organized and led the Ebenezer Women's Committee at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where her husband and son were pastors, and was active in the NAACP, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the YWCA. On…
ID Number:2000.107.19740630.1.17A
Date:1974