357 results for: Discrimination
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Black delegation meeting with officials at City Hall after Larry Ward shooting, Seattle, May 19, 1970
On May 15, 1970, a Seattle police officer shot and killed Larry Eugene Ward (1947-1970) as he fled from police after attempting to light a bomb fuse at Hardcastle Realty at 23rd Avenue and Union Street in the Central Area. Police were alerted to the attempt by the FBI, who had been watching the property, expecting Black Panther involvement in…
ID Number:1986.5.1066.4
Date:1970
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Vigil for missing Mississippi civil-rights workers at United States courthouse, Seattle, June 29, 1964
On June 29, 1964, about 300 people marched from the United States Courthouse to Westlake Mall to protest discrimination in Mississippi and call for increased protection for student volunteers conducting a voter registration drive there. The march ended a round-the-clock vigil at the courthouse for the three young civil rights workers who had disappeared in Mississippi on June 21, and…
ID Number:1986.5.5934.1
Date:1964
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Open housing demonstration at Westlake Mall, March 7, 1964
On March 7, 1964, supporters of the proposed open housing ordinance marched from four staging areas to converge on Westlake Mall for a rally to generate enthusiasm for the ordinance in the upcoming election. The open housing ordinance against racial discrimination in home sales and rentals was rejected by Seattle voters on March 10, 1964 by a margin of nearly…
ID Number:1986.5.5935.5
Date:1964
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CORE demonstrators outside Picture Floor Plans, Bothell, March 22, 1964
In March 1964, the Seattle Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) held peaceful demonstrations against Seattle real estate firms in efforts to get the firms to agree to show homes without regard to race, and to include a statement to that effect in their advertising. On March 22, CORE picketed both the Greenlake and Bothell locations of the Picture Floor Plans…
ID Number:1986.5.5936.16
Date:1964
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Civil rights march, Seattle, 1965
Protestors' signs: [Equality] Now! We Protest Injustice NAACP. Discrimination Hurts Seattle. We Shall Overcome. Let My People Vote NAACP.Handwritten on sleeve: NEGROES, Seattle, Freedom marchers at Federal Courthouse.Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 21, 1965.
ID Number:1986.5.5939.1
Date:1965
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Civil rights marchers in front of Olympic Hotel, Seattle, 1964
Proponents of an open housing ordinance demonstrate in front of the world-class Olympic Hotel at 411 University Street. Despite efforts to end racial discrimination in home sales and rentals, on March 10, 1964, Seattle voters rejected the ordinance 112,448 to 53,453. The ordinance, drafted by Seattle's Human Rights Commission, would have made housing discrimination a misdemeanor. Opponents, mostly in the…
ID Number:1986.5.5952.1
Date:1964
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Protestors at Atlas Grocery, Seattle, January 1947
In January 1947, the Seattle Council of the National Negro Congress supported a picket in front of Atlas Grocery and St. George Apartments at 14th Ave and Yesler Way. The protest was against racial discrimination, saying that the owners Jee Wong and Allen Pang would not rent to or hire Black people. A newspaper article on January 23, 1947 in…
ID Number:1986.5.6310.1
Date:1947
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Barracks at Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, 1942
In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army into temporary "assembly centers" while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named “Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds, and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma, and Alaska.This photo shows…
ID Number:1986.5.6680.1
Date:1942
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Incarcerees moving into barracks at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup, March 1942
In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army into "assembly centers" while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named "Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds in Puyallup and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska. Here,…
ID Number:1986.5.6680.2
Date:1942
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Cars packed with belongings during forced removal of Japanese Americans, Bainbridge Island, March 1942
In the spring of 1942, persons of Japanese descent living on the West Coast were forcibly removed by the US Army to assembly centers while permanent incarceration camps were built. The Puyallup Assembly Center, euphemistically named "Camp Harmony," was hastily constructed at the Washington State fairgrounds in Puyallup and temporarily housed over 7,000 residents of Seattle, Tacoma and Alaska. Buses…
ID Number:1986.5.6680.3
Date:1942