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Norm Rice waving from car at Mardi Gras parade, July 25, 1993
For over 70 years, Seattle’s Black community has a held a summer festival that was part of Seattle's International Festival, now Seafair. The first, in 1952, was called the East Madison/East Union Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras later transformed into the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, and in 1997 it became the Umoja Fest African Heritage Festival.On July 25th, 1993, drill…
ID Number:2000.107.19930725.2.13
Date:1993
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Seafair pirate talking to spectators at Mardi Gras parade, July 25, 1993
For over 70 years, Seattle’s Black community has a held a summer festival that was part of Seattle's International Festival, now Seafair. The first, in 1952, was called the East Madison/East Union Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras later transformed into the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, and in 1997 it became the Umoja Fest African Heritage Festival.On July 25th, 1993, drill…
ID Number:2000.107.19930725.3.7a
Date:1993
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Freemasons float at Mardi Gras parade, July 25, 1993
For over 70 years, Seattle’s Black community has a held a summer festival that was part of Seattle's International Festival, now Seafair. The first, in 1952, was called the East Madison/East Union Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras later transformed into the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, and in 1997 it became the Umoja Fest African Heritage Festival.On the afternoon of July…
ID Number:2000.107.19930725.3.08
Date:1993
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Smiling spectators at Mardi Gras parade, July 25, 1993
For over 70 years, Seattle’s Black community has a held a summer festival that was part of Seattle's International Festival, now Seafair. The first, in 1952, was called the East Madison/East Union Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras later transformed into the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, and in 1997 it became the Umoja Fest African Heritage Festival.On July 25th, 1993, drill…
ID Number:2000.107.19930725.3.11
Date:1993
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Three people at Juneteenth celebration at Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 19, 1994
Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebratiing the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Also know as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, the holiday is celebrated on the June 19th anniversary of the day in 1865 when a Union Army general arrived in Galveston to announce the end of the Civil War and freedom from…
ID Number:2000.107.19940619.9.02
Date:1994
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Three people at Juneteenth celebration at Volunteer Park, Seattle, June 19, 1994
Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebratiing the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Also know as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, the holiday is celebrated on the June 19th anniversary of the day in 1865 when a Union Army general arrived in Galveston to announce the end of the Civil War and freedom from…
ID Number:2000.107.19940619.9.06
Date:1994
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Martin Luther King Day march, Seattle, January 20, 1997
Approximately 1000 people participated in the 1997 march to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 20, 1997. That year, MLK Day fell the day after Bill Clinton's inauguration for his second term as US President, and the march began at Garfield High School with speakers condemning Clinton's recently announced welfare cuts. Rather than limiting aid to those most…
ID Number:2000.107.19970120.8.04
Date:1997
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Nelson Mandela speaking at welcoming ceremony at Boeing Field, Seattle, December 8, 1999
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) became South Africa’s first Black president in 1994, in the country’s first fully democratic election. His election came after a long struggle against the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa, in which Mandela played a key role and during which he was imprisoned for 27 years.In December 1999, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça…
ID Number:2000.107.19991208.1.14
Date:1999
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Nelson Mandela at welcoming ceremony at Boeing Field, Seattle, December 8, 1999
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) became South Africa’s first Black president in 1994, in the country’s first fully democratic election. His election came after a long struggle against the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa, in which Mandela played a key role and during which he was imprisoned for 27 years.In December 1999, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça…
ID Number:2000.107.19991208.1.15
Date:1999
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Dustin Williams holding traditional talking stick at Nelson Mandela welcoming ceremony, Seattle, December 8, 1999
In December 1999, Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel visited Seattle a few months after Mandela left office as president of South Africa. Their visit was intended to raise money for their charitable organizations. In addition to meeting with prominent philanthropists, Mandela and Machel addressed students at Seattle University, spoke at a world health conference at the University of…
ID Number:2000.107.19991208.1.23
Date:1999