513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Charles Carroll addressing protesters outside City Hall, Seattle, May 6, 1970
On May 1, 1970, protests erupted in Seattle following the announcement by President Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) that U.S. Forces in Vietnam would pursue enemy troops into Cambodia, a neutral country. The focus of protest activity was the University of Washington, but anti-war protests and disruptions also swept downtown. The 1970 UW student strike would continue throughout the month of…
ID Number:2000.107.153.12.01
Date:1970
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Woman confronting American Nazi Party picketers, Seattle, October 13, 1971
When a group of American Nazi Party members paraded in Seattle in 1971, Mrs. Sally Nakdiman (right) protested, saying that she had suffered in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.153.14.01
Date:1971
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March against admitting the People's Republic of China to the United Nations, Seattle, September 21, 1971
When the U.N. General Assembly opened its 1971 session in September 1971, a proposal was made to replace the Republic of China (Taiwan) with the People’s Republic of China (Mainland China). In Seattle, some two dozen Chinese people and allies protested the proposal by marching down Third Avenue from Virginia Street to Yesler Way. They called Mainland China an aggressor…
ID Number:2000.107.153.14.02
Date:1971
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Picketers outside the Washington Public Assistance office, Seattle, April 2, 1971
Seattle did not escape the high inflation and high unemployment rates of the worldwide recession of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some 66,000 Boeing workers were laid off in 1969 and 1970, and the state’s unemployment rate was the highest in the nation. The state legislature sharply reduced welfare grants effective April 1, 1971. At that time, some 70,000…
ID Number:2000.107.153.15.02
Date:1971
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Protesters outside Elks Seattle Lodge, May 1, 1971
This photo shows members of the State Young Democrats Club picketing outside of the Seattle Elks Lodge No. 92 at 2040 Westlake Avenue, protesting the club's discriminatory membership policies. Caption information source: Seattle Times, May 2, 1971, p. 115
ID Number:2000.107.153.15.03
Date:1971
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Anti-war protest in front of Seattle-First National Bank, April 17, 1972
On April 17, 1972, about 500 people gathered in front of the Seattle-First (SeaFirst) National Bank Building at 1001 4th Avenue to protest the U.S. bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong the previous day. The protest, organized by several women's groups, demanded that the bombing stop and the U.S. support North Vietnam's Seven Point Peace Plan, presented at the Paris peace…
ID Number:2000.107.153.16.01
Date:1972
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Friends of the Market protest at the Arcade Plaza building, Seattle, February 11, 1971
This photograph shows Friends of the Market picketers in front of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) offices in the Arcade Plaza Building at 2nd Avenue and Union Street. At the time, HUD was reviewing Seattle's application for the Pike Plaza development, and would be the funding agency if the application was approved. Protesters sought to stop the project and…
ID Number:2000.107.153.16.02
Date:1971
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Bernie Whitebear drumming at Wounded Knee support rally, Seattle, March 24, 1973
In this image, local American Indian activist Bernie Whitebear beats on a drum at a Pioneer Square rally in support of Native people occupying Wounded Knee, South Dakota. According the caption in the Seattle P-I, Whitebear also urged support for "all other Indian struggles throughout the nation." Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the…
ID Number:2000.107.153.17.01
Date:1973
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Trisha Marymoon protesting at Federal Building, Seattle, August 6, 1976
In this image, Seattle police Sgt. F.J. Johnson looks on as Trisha Marymoon of Vancouver, B.C., dressed in white and soaked with blood, sits inside a metal cage in front of the Federal Office Building at 915 2nd Avenue. The artist was marking the 31st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and protesting the building of the Trident submarine at…
ID Number:2000.107.153.18.01
Date:1976
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Anti-war protesters outside Boeing headquarters, Seattle, May 1, 1970
On the evening of April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon informed the nation that U.S. forces were expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Over the following days, protests and strikes against this move erupted at colleges and in cities throughout the country. In Seattle, the University of Washington Student Mobilization Committee got a permit for a march from the U.S.…
ID Number:2000.107.153.20.01
Date:1970