426 results for: Civil Rights
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Portrait of Garry Owens, September 1988
Garry Owens was born in Seattle’s Chinatown - International District and lived in a number of Seattle neighborhoods before graduating from Franklin High School. As a senior in high school, Owens was impressed by and participated in the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). After high school, he was drafted into the Army and his experiences in…
ID Number:2000.107.136.40.01
Date:1988
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Supporters of school integration picketing outside Seattle Public School offices, Seattle, May 12, 1965
Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, various civil rights groups in Seattle unsuccessfully tried to persuade a predominately white school board to address the issues of desegregation of the Seattle Public Schools. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) felt that most of the educational deficiencies among the bulk…
ID Number:2000.107.141.13.03
Date:1965
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Black Arts/West actors rehearsing "The River Niger," Seattle, June 4, 1974
Black Arts/West was Seattle’s first black theatre and functioned as a three component program: theatre, dance, and an art gallery displaying the work of local and national artists. Founded by Douglas Q. Barnett (1931-) in 1969, Black Arts/West evolved out of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and was charged with getting young people involved and learning the necessary…
ID Number:2000.107.142.33.01
Date:1974
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Edwin Pratt, Robert Williams, and James McIver at "Sunday of Concern" meeting, November 11, 1968
At monthly "Sunday of Concern" meetings, representatives of 40 Central Area organizations got together to discuss problems in the district. In this photograph (left to right) Edwin T. Pratt, Executive Director of the Seattle Urban League; Robert Williams, intergroup relations specialist at Seattle Public Schools; and James McIver, head of the Loren Miller Bar Club, an organization for Black attorneys,…
ID Number:2000.107.146.25.01
Date:1968
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Tear gas at demonstration at 23rd & Cherry, Seattle, May 26, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.01
Date:1969
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Police running to demonstration at Summit Branch of Seattle Community College, May 23, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.02
Date:1969
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Demonstrators at 19th Avenue S. and S. Washington Street, Seattle, May 26, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.03
Date:1969
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Protesters running from tear gas at 23rd and Cherry, Seattle, May 26, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.04
Date:1969
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Marchers on Denny Way protesting lack of jobs for minorities, Seattle, December 14, 1969
On Sunday, December 14, 1969, the Central Area Civil Rights Committee sponsored a March Against Underemployment of Minorities. Nearly 3,000 people walked from five Central Area churches to the Seattle Center Arena for a rally with comedian and activist Dick Gregory. The Seattle Urban League, the Seattle Council of Churches and other church, civic, and social organizations endorsed and participated…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.05
Date:1969
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Police line and protesters at Edison South, Seattle, Seattle, May 23, 1969
In late May 1969, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) demonstrated for several days in Seattle’s Central District. Their focus was the lack of Black representation on the board of Seattle Community College (now Seattle Central College), and they wanted one member of the five-man board to resign in favor of a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.09.06
Date:1969