426 results for: Civil Rights
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Boy dancing 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.CD01.03.002
Date:2001
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Sudanese dancers rehearsing for performance at Highline YMCA, Burien, October 20, 2002
Many young people from southern Sudan fled their home country during its second civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the "Lost Boys" and "Lost Girls" of Sudan. About 3800 boys and 90 girls who fled the war were resettled in the United States, with about 100 settling in Western Washington. There, a group of about 12…
ID Number:2000.107.20021020.CD03.01.001
Date:2002
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Mayen Akoon leading Sudanese dancers, October 20, 2002
Many young people from southern Sudan fled their home country during its second civil war in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the "Lost Boys" and "Lost Girls" of Sudan. About 3800 boys and 90 girls who fled the war were resettled in the United States, with about 100 settling in Western Washington. There, a group of about 12…
ID Number:2000.107.20021020.CD03.01.002
Date:2002
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Hunter Floyd, co-founder of Seattle Veterans Museum, December 6, 2002
The Seattle Veterans Museum was founded in 2001 by two veterans, reserve Army Captain Hunter Floyd and Navy Lieutenant Todd Crooks. It began with Crooks collecting his father's uniform and gear from WWII, then grew as he collected mementos and items from other conflicts in US history. When Floyd and Crooks realized that Seattle did not have a local museum…
ID Number:2000.107.20021206.CD01.03.001
Date:2002
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Madeleine Sosin and Jonah Cohen protest new INS policies at Hing Hay Park, Seattle, January 13, 2003
In January 2003, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft implemented a new policy requiring male visitors - including tourists, workers, and students on short-term visas - from 18 mainly Muslim countries to be fingerprinted, interviewed, and photographed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now USCIS) or risk deportation. On January 13, 2003, several hundred people gathered in Seattle's Chinatown - International…
ID Number:2000.107.20030113.CD04.001
Date:2003
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INS detainee responding to people protesting new INS policies, Seattle, January 13, 2003
In January 2003, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft implemented a new policy requiring male visitors - including tourists, workers, and students on short-term visas - from 18 mainly Muslim countries to be fingerprinted, interviewed, and photographed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now USCIS) or risk deportation. On January 13, 2003, several hundred people gathered in Seattle's Chinatown - International…
ID Number:2000.107.20030113.CD04.002
Date:2003
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Demonstrators protesting new INS policies at INS detention center, Seattle, January 13, 2003
In January 2003, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft implemented a new policy requiring male visitors - including tourists, workers, and students on short-term visas - from 18 mainly Muslim countries to be fingerprinted, interviewed, and photographed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now USCIS) or risk deportation. On January 13, 2003, several hundred people gathered in Seattle's Chinatown - International…
ID Number:2000.107.20030113.CD04.003
Date:2003
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Demonstrators protesting new INS policies, Seattle, January 13, 2003
In January 2003, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft implemented a new policy requiring male visitors - including tourists, workers, and students on short-term visas - from 18 mainly Muslim countries to be fingerprinted, interviewed, and photographed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now USCIS) or risk deportation. On January 13, 2003, several hundred people gathered in Seattle's Chinatown - International…
ID Number:2000.107.20030113.CD04.004
Date:2003
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Jackie Lawson and Cynthia Wilson at G.A.R. cemetery, Seattle, March 2004
In this photo, Cynthia Wilson, left, and Jacqueline Lawson kneel near the grave of Black Civil War veteran Gilford Hervey at the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) cemetery in Seattle. The two genealogists had been researching Hervey since learning about graves of veterans of the United States Colored Troops at the G.A.R cemetery in a newspaper article the previous…
ID Number:2000.107.200403.CD01.04.001
Date:2004
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Leaflet for trial of the Seattle Seven, November 16, 1970
In February 1970, members of the Chicago Seven were sentenced on contempt charges stemming from riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Demonstrations took place in numerous cities. The Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) called for protests in downtown Seattle. On February 17, over 2000 demonstrators carried on running battles with the police, breaking windows in the U.S. Courthouse and downtown businesses.Seventy-five…
ID Number:2002.23.1.41.1
Date:1970