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"Little Royalty" court receiving dinner at Seafair Fiesta Filipina, Seattle, August 2, 1964
Fiesta Filipina (also Philippine Festival) began as an annual event commemorating the anniversary of Philippine Independence. The event was held at Seward Park and became part of Seafair, Seattle's ten-week-long summer festival. In 1987 the event was moved to the Seattle Center, where by 1997 it had been renamed Pagdiriwang and become one of the five ethnic and cultural festivals…
ID Number:2000.107.062.03.07
Date:1964
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Freddie Mae Gautier, September 10, 1990
Freddie Mae Gautier (1930-2001) was an influential civil rights and community activist in Seattle from the 1960s through the 1990s. Gautier's early activism in the civil rights movement introduced her to movement leaders such as Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the late 1950s-early 1960s, she marched alongside King and other leaders of…
ID Number:2000.107.073.33.01
Date:1990
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Larry Gossett and Roberto Maestas at City Council meeting, Seattle, November 10, 1972
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young black radicals. In 1967 he was active in the Seattle chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett served as executive director of CAMP,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.01
Date:1972
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Larry Gossett commemorating Attica prison riot, Seattle, September 9, 1974
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young Black radicals. In 1967 he was active in Seattle’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett developed a close relationship with other activists for racial justice,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.03
Date:1974
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Larry Gossett speaking at anti-stadium demonstration, Seattle, February 3, 1975
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young Black radicals. In 1967 he was active in Seattle’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett developed a close relationship with other activists for racial justice,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.05
Date:1975
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Larry Gossett speaking at anti-police violence demonstration, Seattle, April 20, 1971
Larry Gossett (1945-) was born and raised in Seattle, and by the late 1960s was one of Seattle’s best known young Black radicals. In 1967 he was active in Seattle’s Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in 1968 he co-founded the University of Washington Black Student Union (UW BSU). Gossett developed a close relationship with other activists for racial justice,…
ID Number:2000.107.077.01.07
Date:1971
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Sam Smith and Tim Hill unveiling "Make Life Accessible" campaign billboard, April 14, 1986
This image shows Seattle City Council president Sam Smith (right) with King County Executive Tim Hill at the unveiling of the Make Life Accessible campaign. Smith used a wheelchair beginning in 1985, after losing a leg to diabetes. The Make Life Accessible campaign was run by Seattle's Resource Center for the Handicapped, and aimed to help people with disabilities find…
ID Number:2000.107.082.13.06
Date:1986
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Hyacinth David with drum at Tillicum Village, July 31, 1970
Tillicum Village was a Puget Sound area visitor attraction from 1962-2021 that was designed to showcase the arts, culture, and food of various Northwest Coast Salish Indigenous peoples. Blake Island Marine State Park is located in Puget Sound directly west of West Seattle.In this image Hyacinth David, a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of Vancouver Island, Canada, holds a…
ID Number:2000.107.095.27.03
Date:1970
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Kotaka Uomoto at Nisei Veterans Hall, Seattle, September 21, 1988
This photo shows Kotaka Uomoto posing in front of an American flag at the Nisei Veterans Hall in Seattle, where she participated in a twice-weekly nutrition program for Japanese senior citizens. Kotaka (1896-1993) and her husband Hyokichi Uomoto (1883-1965) arrived in Washington from Japan in 1916 and settled in Seattle. The couple had four sons: Yoshinori George (1919-2004), Kiyoshi Robert…
ID Number:2000.107.098.20.01
Date:1988
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Kichisaburo Ishimitsu and friends at redress ceremony, Seattle, October 14, 1990
The Japanese American Redress Movement refers to the efforts, from the 1940s through the 1990s, to obtain the restitution of civil rights, monetary compensation, and an apology from the U.S. government for the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Japanese Americans protested their mass incarceration with defiance and protests while living at the camps, and…
ID Number:2000.107.098.20.02
Date:1990