426 results for: Civil Rights
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Helen Beck Stafford, June 30, 1987
Helen Beck Stafford (1899-2002) was a community and civil rights activist in Tacoma. Stafford attended Kansas State University, where she was not allowed live in the dorms, swim in the campus pool, or use other facilities required by her course work because she was Black. Despite a college experience rife with discrimination and racial insults, she excelled and graduated in…
ID Number:2000.107.204.01.01
Date:1987
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Grace Thorpe making sign for protest at courthouse, Seattle, March 16, 1970
On March 8, 1970, about 100 members and sympathizers of United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupied Fort Lawton, a 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood. They were inspired by the passage of a bill signed by President Richard Nixon, which granted non-federal entities the ability to obtain surplus federal lands for…
ID Number:2000.107.212.01.01
Date:1970
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UCWA members marching down Madison St., Seattle, July 7, 1972
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott (1940-2003), an electrician who had become a Seattle civil rights activist. The UCWA began with the goal of uniting minority construction workers to promote their employment in the construction industry and prevent discrimination. Because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for Black workers…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.01
Date:1972
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King County Sheriff officers watching CCA demonstrators at Sea-Tac airport, November 6, 1969
Founded in Seattle in 1969, the Central Contractors Association (CCA), sought equal compliance in contracts granted on Federal building projects. Leader Tyree Scott (1940–2003) was a civil rights activist deeply involved in many minority workers’ and equal opportunity organizations. At the time, because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for Black workers and Black contractors…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.02
Date:1969
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Larry Gossett and Tyree Scott outside Federal Courthouse, Seattle, June 15, 1972
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott (1940-2003), an electrician who had become a Seattle civil rights activist. The UCWA began with the goal of uniting minority construction workers to promote their employment in the construction industry and prevent discrimination. Because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for Black workers…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.03
Date:1972
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UCWA demonstrators marching down 5th Ave., Seattle, March 11, 1975
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott (1940-2003), an electrician who had become a Seattle civil rights activist. The UCWA began with the goal of uniting minority construction workers to promote their employment in the construction industry and prevent discrimination. Because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for Black workers…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.04
Date:1975
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Tyree Scott and Sam Martinez being arrested during UWCA protest, Seattle, June 8 1972
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott (1940-2003), an electrician who had become a Seattle civil rights activist. The UCWA began with the goal of uniting minority construction workers to promote their employment in the construction industry and prevent discrimination. Because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for Black workers…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.05
Date:1972
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CCA demonstrators sit-in at Sea-Tac Airport, November 6, 1969
Founded in Seattle in 1969, the Central Contractors Association (CCA), sought equal compliance in contracts granted on Federal building projects. Leader Tyree Scott (1940–2003) was a civil rights activist deeply involved in many minority workers’ and equal opportunity organizations. At the time, because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for black workers and black contractors…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.06
Date:1969
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UCWA protesters arrested after entering SCCC construction site, June 22, 1972
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott (1940-2003), an electrician who had become a Seattle civil rights activist. The UCWA began with the goal of uniting minority construction workers to promote their employment in the construction industry and prevent discrimination. Because of union control over the local labor market, it was almost impossible for…
ID Number:2000.107.216.06.10
Date:1972
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Bettylou Valentine and Rebecca Salinas-Burton with student in Central Youth and Family Services office, Seattle, January 2, 1990
Bettylou (Burleigh) Valentine (1937-2014) came to Seattle in 1959 to attend graduate school at the University of Washington (UW). She was an early leader of Seattle CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), serving as secretary in 1964. She helped organize the campus Civil Rights Action Group (CRAG) after the UW administration refused to allow an NAACP chapter on campus. She left…
ID Number:2000.107.218.33.01
Date:1990