186 results for: Haller, Grant M.
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Anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting at South African consulate, Seattle, January 23, 1985
Beginning in October 1984, a series of demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Madison Park to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. Though the protest shown here was orderly and non-violent, police arrested 58 of the approximately 1,000 demonstrators on criminal trespass charges. Caption information source: The…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.02
Date:1985
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Police and supporters of the anti-apartheid movement, Seattle, January 20, 1985
When South Africa’s National Party came to power in 1948, the white leadership put extreme laws in place forcing the country’s racial groups to live and develop separately. These “apartheid” laws caused much hardship and resentment. The growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the 1950s brought attention to apartheid, and in the 1970s and 80s,…
ID Number:2000.107.047.33.04
Date:1985
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Protestors demonstrating in favor of low income housing, Seattle, October 12, 1988
On October 12, 1988, some 300 demonstrators crowded the steps of the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle to protest the lack of affordable housing. Speakers noted that some 20,000 children were homeless in Washington state. The demonstration was organized by a variety of church and activist groups and took place during a housing conference at the Washington State Convention and…
ID Number:2000.107.047.36.01
Date:1988
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens, and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.02
Date:1979
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Elmer Dixon, Seattle, 1979
Elmer Dixon (b. 1950) is a longtime Seattle activist for racial justice and was one of the founders of Seattle’s chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Seattle chapter was founded in the spring of 1968, after Elmer and his brother Aaron Dixon, Anthony Ware, Garry Owens and several other future Panthers attended a memorial service in San Francisco…
ID Number:2000.107.049.32.03
Date:1979
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Cindy Domingo and Terri Mast at press conference, September 6, 1990
Cindy Domingo (b. 1953) is a longtime community activist in Seattle. She was active in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the Washington State Rainbow Coalition, the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV), the Center for Social Justice, and organized Seattle International Women’s Day events. Domingo also created the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration after attending the 1995…
ID Number:2000.107.050.32.02
Date:1990
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Lucette Lightfoot and her daughter at voting booth, Seattle, September 20, 1988
Washington voters went to the polls on Tuesday, September 20, 1996 to vote in the primary election. Here, Lucetta Lightfoot (center) votes at the Catharine Blaine Elementary School in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. Her daughter Cara, aged 7, takes a look at the voting booth while her mother casts her ballot. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and…
ID Number:2000.107.055.27.01
Date:1988
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Presidential primary caucus at The Central Area Motivation Project Headquarters, Seattle, March 3, 1992
Before 2020, Washington state delegates to the Democratic National Convention were selected at party caucuses. In March 1992, a number of caucus groups met at the headquarters of the Central Area Motivation Project in Seattle’s Central District. The precinct voted to send two delegates for then-former California governor Jerry Brown plus one uncommitted delegate. Brown carried eight caucuses meeting there.…
ID Number:2000.107.055.28.01
Date:1992
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Jim Ellis, Seattle, September 1974
James Reed "Jim" Ellis (b. 1921), a Franklin High School graduate and Seattle lawyer, is widely regarded as one of the most visionary civic activists in King County history. In the late 1950s he spearheaded the clean up of Lake Washington, leading to the creation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle (Metro), which became a regional transportation system. In the…
ID Number:2000.107.056.08.02
Date:1974
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Fashion models posing in downtown Seattle, September 18, 1981
In this image fashion models from Nordstrom pose in two types of casual wear. The two models on the left have some high fashion touches, while the models on the right have looks which incorporate hardier outdoor gear.
ID Number:2000.107.060.26.02
Date:1981