497 results for: Women's Rights
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Northwest Admirals coach Cindy Dayley talks with hockey team at practice in Olympic View Arena, March 1997
The Northwest Admirals were a girls junior ice hockey team based in Seattle from 1995 through 1998. They were the first US girls or women's team to join the Canadian Lower Mainland Female Hockey League, which they won in the 1996-97 season with a record of 19 wins and no losses. By March of that season, the Admirals had scored…
ID Number:2000.107.19970306.40.32
Date:1997
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Players in an over-50 women's soccer game in the heavy rain at Woodland Park, Seattle, March 18, 1997
Women's soccer in Washington State grew and flourished from the 1970s through the 1990s, with the development of multiple high school and college programs, and women's leagues and clubs. The proliferation of women's soccer clubs gave women of all ages and abilities the opportunity to develop and compete.Here, two over-50 women's soccer teams plays a game at night in heavy…
ID Number:2000.107.19970318.2.14
Date:1997
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Project ACTION member near condom dispenser, Seattle, April 3, 1997
Project ACTION was a publicly- and privately-funded two-year campaign aimed at lowering the rate of HIV infection, sexually transmitted disease, and unwanted pregnancy among youth aged 14 to 20. The campaign was one of the earliest efforts to make low-cost condoms available to this age group with no strings attached. Project ACTION hoped to persuade about 130 youth-oriented businesses, such…
ID Number:2000.107.19970403.5.27
Date:1997
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Elizabeth Gordon and Susan Varner at Jubilee Women's Center, Seattle, April 4, 1997
In 1997, the Washington State Legislature cut $35 million from the state’s General Assistance - Unemployable (GAU) program, which at the time provided cash assistance and medical coverage to about 17,000 Washingtonians who were unable to work. As of 2024, this program, now called the Aged, Blind or Disabled Cash Program (ABD), continues to offer cash assistance to low-income people…
ID Number:2000.107.19970404.24.24
Date:1997
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Tara Davis watching Cleveland High School track meet, Seattle, May 2, 1997
Tara Davis is a former professional athlete who played on the Seattle's first women's professional basketball team, the Seattle Reign. During the 1997 offseason, Davis, who was also a track star in high school and college, worked at Cleveland High School as an assistant track and field coach. She saw the coaching role as an opportunity to support the community…
ID Number:2000.107.19970502.8.13
Date:1997
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Sara Pickering at batting practice, Seattle, May 13, 1997
Sara Pickering played for the UW women's softball team for all four years of her time at the university, from 1994 to 1997. She played second base and is one of the most successful athletes in UW's history. She was the team captain for three years, was the team MVP twice, and had a career batting average of .379. Pickering…
ID Number:2000.107.19970513.18.08
Date:1997
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University of Washington women's softball team in huddle, Seattle, May 13, 1997
This image shows members of the UW women's softball team at practice in May 1997. That year, the team made it to the Women's College World Series, which was the team's second appearance in the WCWS and only the fifth year of the program's existence. Their opponent was UCLA, who won both games and eliminated UW from the tournament. Caption…
ID Number:2000.107.19970513.18.33
Date:1997
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Sara Pickering running off baseball field, Seattle, May 13, 1997
Sara Pickering played for the UW women's softball team for all four years of her time at the university, from 1994 to 1997. She played second base and is one of the most successful athletes in UW's history. She was the team captain for three years, was the team MVP twice, and had a career batting average of .379. Pickering…
ID Number:2000.107.19970513.19.11
Date:1997
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Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation at Juneteenth celebration, Seattle, June 19, 2001
Juneteenth is an annual holiday celebrating 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:2000.107.20010618.CD01.03.001
Date:2001
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Women and children on the porch of the Masjid Al-Salaam, SeaTac, August 3, 2001
In 1974, the Masjid Al-Salaam opened in a small frame house at 3040 S. 150th St, in what is now the city of SeaTac, between Seattle and Tacoma. Worshipers included people from Somalia, Southeast Asia, Bosnia, Indonesia, and the Middle East. The Masjid, now also called the Islamic Center of Seattle, was the first mosque in Washington State. Sometime in…
ID Number:2000.107.20010803.1.26
Date:2001