1183 results for: Black/African American
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Eddie Rye, Jr., Seattle, February 3, 1970
In 1969, Eddie Rye, Jr., personnel officer for the Seattle-King County Economic Opportunity Board, was named Director of the Central Area Motivation Program’s (C.A.M.P.) Education Talent Search Project (E.S.T.P.). E.S.T.P.’s mission was to find promising minority scholars and arrange financial aid for them to attend college. Continuing a life of community activism and advocacy, Rye served as chair of the…
ID Number:2000.107.158.38.01
Date:1970
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Bobby Seale at press conference, Seattle, May 16, 1972
Robert George "Bobby" Seale (b. 1936) is a political activist and was co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1966. The Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party was established in 1968, after Aaron Dixon, Elmer Dixon, Anthony Ware, Gary Owens and several other future Panthers met BPP Chairman Bobby Seale in Oakland when they travelled there to attend…
ID Number:2000.107.163.37.01
Date:1972
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Ray Seales and his mother with his Olympic gold medal, circa 1973
"Sugar" Ray Seales was the only American boxer to win a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Ray Seales (b. 1952) was born in the Virgin Islands, where his father, who boxed in the U.S. Army, was stationed. The family moved to Tacoma in 1965, where Seales was coached by Joe Clough at at the Tacoma Boys…
ID Number:2000.107.163.37.02
Date:1974
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Ray Seales and Ray Haley boxing at Tacoma Golden Gloves prelinimaries, January 1970
"Sugar" Ray Seales was the only American boxer to win a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Ray Seales (b. 1952) was born in the Virgin Islands, where his father, who boxed in the U.S. Army, was stationed. The family moved to Tacoma in 1965, where Seales was coached by Joe Clough at at the Tacoma Boys…
ID Number:2000.107.163.37.03
Date:1970
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Ray Seales and Eddie Cotton at annual PI sports banquet, January 9, 1973
"Sugar" Ray Seales was the only American boxer to win a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Ray Seales (b. 1952) was born in the Virgin Islands, where his father, who boxed in the U.S. Army, was stationed. The family moved to Tacoma in 1965, where Seales was coached by Joe Clough at at the Tacoma Boys…
ID Number:2000.107.163.37.04
Date:1973
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Ray Seales coaching from during boxing match, February 15, 1977
"Sugar" Ray Seales was the only American boxer to win a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Ray Seales (b. 1952) was born in the Virgin Islands, where his father, who boxed in the U.S. Army, was stationed. The family moved to Tacoma in 1965, where Seales was coached by Joe Clough at at the Tacoma Boys…
ID Number:2000.107.163.37.05
Date:1977
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View of Atlantic Street neighborhood, Seattle, 1983
Seattle's Atlantic neighborhood (which has also been referred to as Yesler/Atlantic and Judkins Park) is a triangular community in the Central District area, between Mount Baker Ridge and Beacon Hill. One of Seattle's oldest residential neighborhoods, it was home to Seattle's largest Italian enclaves during the early years of the twentieth century. Like other neighborhoods in central and southeast Seattle,…
ID Number:2000.107.165.05.01
Date:1983
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Emerald City Bank, formerly Liberty Bank, June 20, 1988
Emerald City Bank was a short-lived successor to Liberty Bank, the first principally Black-owned bank in Seattle. Liberty Bank was founded by a group of leading figures in Seattle’s Black community in partnership with Japanese and Jewish community leaders from the Central Area. It opened on May 31, 1968 with 518 stakeholders, most of whom were Black people of limited…
ID Number:2000.107.165.11.05
Date:1988
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Dior Seck at Black Community Festival, Seattle, July 30, 1993
In this image Dior Seck of Senegal is surrounded by handmade Senegalese dolls in traditional dress. Seck is the owner of Sahle International Arts and Crafts in the University District and was selling African art, old and new, at the two-day Black Community Festival at Judkins Park in the Central District neighborhood of Seattle. Caption information derived from captions written…
ID Number:2000.107.165.25.01
Date:1993
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Pastor McKinney listening to choir at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, March 9, 1958
Founded in 1890, Mount Zion Baptist Church in Seattle is home to the oldest and largest African American congregation in the state of Washington. In this image Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney (1926-2018) looks on as one of the church choirs opens a Sunday morning worship service. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the…
ID Number:2000.107.169.17.01
Date:1958