513 results for: Protests and Demonstrations
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Police arresting protester outside the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, February 17, 1970
In February 1970, members of the Chicago Seven were sentenced on contempt charges stemming from riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Demonstrations took place in numerous cities. The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) called for protests in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over 2000 demonstrators carried on running battles with the police, breaking windows in the U.S. Courthouse and downtown businesses.…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.09.15
Date:1970
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Demonstrator detained on Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Feb 17, 1970
In February 1970, members of the Chicago Seven were sentenced on contempt charges stemming from riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Demonstrations took place in numerous cities. The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) called for protests in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over 2000 demonstrators carried on running battles with the police, breaking windows in the U.S. Courthouse and downtown businesses.…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.09.20
Date:1970
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Woman being handcuffed outside the Olympic Hotel, February 17, 1970
In February 1970, members of the Chicago Seven were sentenced on contempt charges stemming from riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Demonstrations took place in numerous cities. The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) called for protests in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over 2000 demonstrators carried on running battles with the police, breaking windows in the U.S. Courthouse and downtown businesses.…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.09.26
Date:1970
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Protesters breaking glass door at Courthouse, February 17, 1970
In February 1970, members of the Chicago Seven were sentenced on contempt charges stemming from riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Demonstrations took place in numerous cities. The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) called for protests in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over 2000 demonstrators carried on running battles with the police, breaking windows in the U.S. Courthouse and downtown businesses.…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.10.15
Date:1970
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Property tax protesters in rotunda of Washington State Capitol, April 3, 1971
In April 1971, about 500 property owners jammed the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia to protest spiraling property taxes. Many of the protesters were elderly people from North Seattle, where property taxes had risen more than 100 percent over the previous year. This photo shows protestors seated on the steps in the Rotunda waiting to hear from State legislators, several…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.11
Date:1971
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Property tax protesters in rotunda of Washington State Capitol, April 3, 1971
In April 1971, about 500 property owners jammed the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia to protest spiraling property taxes. Many of the protesters were elderly people from North Seattle, where property taxes had risen more than 100 percent over the previous year. This photo shows protestors seated on the steps in the Rotunda, perhaps listening to one of the several…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.12
Date:1971
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Police and protesters at Federal Courthouse, Seattle, May 1971
In early May of 1971 several anti-war protests were organized by the Seattle Coalition for Peace and Justice. On May 5 about 2,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Seattle, and on May 7 demonstrators marched along Fifth Avenue, passing the U. S. Federal Courthouse at 1010 5th Avenue before they were scattered by Seattle Police Tactical squads. In this image police…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.13
Date:1971
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Seattle Police Tactical Squad at SeaFirst building, May 5, 1971
On May 5 about 2,000 anti-war protesters marched through downtown Seattle streets in a demonstration planned by the Seattle Coalition for Peace and Justice. The protest began at 1:30 pm at Times Square on Fifth Avenue and Stewart Street and moved north. The only building demonstrators entered was the Seattle-First (SeaFirst) National Bank building on Fourth Avenue. They stayed a…
ID Number:2000.107.153.22.14
Date:1971
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Jim Robideau in BIA office, Seattle, November 6, 1972
On November 2nd, 1972, several hundred Indigenous people occupied the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in Washington, DC. They presented 20 demands for better conditions for Indigenous peoples in the United States, including reform of the BIA, enforcement of existing treaties, protection of Indigenous lands, and improved treaty procedures. Over the following days, BIA offices in other…
ID Number:2000.107.154.13.01
Date:1972
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Roberto Maestas, Bernie Whitebear, Jim Robideau, and Larry Gossett speaking at rally, Seattle, February 27, 1974
This image shows (from left) Roberto Maestas, Bernie Whitebear, Jim Robideau, and Larry Gossett speaking at a rally on the anniversary of the occupation of Wounded Knee by protesters the previous year. Held at El Centro de la Raza in Seattle, the event was a show of solidarity with the American Indian Movement (AIM). The rally protested the federal government’s…
ID Number:2000.107.154.13.02
Date:1974