3248 results for: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Make the bosses take the losses! flier, Seattle, May 1975
In May 1975, Eddie Bauer, a prominent Seattle clothing manufacturer, fired over 70 garment workers without notice. Most were women - members of the United Garment Workers Union Local 17. On May 17, some two-dozen people picketed the downtown Seattle Eddie Bauer store in protest. The laid off workers blamed the company for firing them because of their union membership,…
ID Number:2002.23.3.54.1
Date:1975
Poster
"People's Blockade" poster, Seattle, 1972
During the summer of 1972, the Seattle-based People’s Blockade Coalition organized numerous protests to block U.S. Navy ammunition ships headed to Vietnam. The vessels, sailing from the ammunition depot at Bangor, on the Kitsap Peninsula, had to pass through the Hood Canal Bridge. Sections of this floating bridge had to slide open for boats of all sizes, and protesters used…
ID Number:2002.23.3.61.1.1
Date:1972
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Operation Homestead leaflet, 1991
The building of the Seattle Convention Center and other buildings in the 1980s displaced many low-income residents in the downtown area. In 1988, housing activists, displaced and homeless people, and others formed Operation Homestead to take direct action. In 1989 they estimated that the city had 3,000 to 5,000 people experiencing homelessness, and that some 2,000 people had been displaced…
ID Number:2002.23.5.32.1
Date:1991
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Youth Advocates poster, Seattle, 1979
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, problems with teen runaways and drug use in Seattle and King County led to the formation of Youth Advocates. The group advocated setting up counseling and training centers, modernizing the juvenile justice system, and dealing with family problems before young people ran away from home. By 1980, it had become part of United…
ID Number:2002.23.8.7.2
Date:1979
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Get Peaced Off! poster, January 14, 1991
After Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League passed resolutions giving Iraq a deadline of January 15, 1991 to leave Kuwait and authorizing military intervention if this did not occur. When Iraq did not withdraw, the United States and coalition forces from other countries began a heavy bombing campaign, codenamed…
ID Number:2002.23.9.20.1
Date:1991
Poster
National Day of Solidarity with Prisoners poster, September 13, 1978
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 is one of the most well-known flashpoints of the prisoners' rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In Seattle, the Uprising was commemorated by marches and other actions on its anniversary over the subsequent several years. On September 6,1978, the newly formed Washington Coalition Against More Prisons asked state officials to immediately release 1000…
ID Number:2002.23.11.12
Date:1978
Photograph
Girls with luggage outside the Central Area Youth Association (CAYA) building, Seattle, April 5, 1968
The Central Area Youth Association was formed in the 1950s to provide youth football programs in Seattle’s Central Area. In 1964, CAYA expanded its programs to include education, social development, and additional sports programs for both minority and white youth.One spring evening, sixteen girls from the CAYA track team left for an AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) invitational track meet in…
ID Number:2002.46.8225
Date:1968
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White students arriving at Meany Middle School, Seattle, September 6, 1972
In the 1960s, after decades of discrimination in housing had created an increasingly segregated school system in Seattle, civil rights activists wanted the School Board to promote integration and, with it, intercultural empathy and understanding. After various attempts to promote voluntary integration, and faced with the threat of legal action from advocates of integration, in 1972 the School District launched…
ID Number:2002.46.197.4
Date:1972
Photograph
Ruby Chow County Council swearing in, Seattle, January 14, 1974
Ruby Chow (1920-2008) was a Chinese-American activist and restaurateur who was active in the community for over 50 years. She was born in Seattle and grew up in what was then Chinatown (now Chinatown - International District). In 1948, Ruby and her husband Ping opened Ruby Chow’s Restaurant, which quickly became popular, especially with celebrities and dignitaries. Chow became the…
ID Number:2002.46.881.9
Date:1974
Photograph
Herbert Stephens waiting to be sworn in, March 8, 1974
Herbert M. Stephens (1918-2000) was appointed as a judge to the King County Superior Court in 1974, becoming the second Black person to serve as a superior judge in Washington. Born in Oklahoma, Stephens graduated from Morehouse College and received a law degree from the University of Washington. In addition to his law practice, he also served on the Washington…
ID Number:2002.46.917.1A
Date:1974