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Poster
Draft Information Picnic & Benefit poster, Fall City, September 7, 1980
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter reinstated the draft in response to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Depending upon their year of birth, men were required to register by a particular week during the summer and fall of 1980.This poster advertises an event to provide information about the draft, sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and The…
ID Number:2013.87.107
Date:1980
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CORE taxi boycott bumper sticker, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.1
Date:1964
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CORE jobs rally poster, October 4, 1964
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.2
Date:1964
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CORE membership poster, 1966
CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, was founded in Chicago in 1942. It played a key national role in the Civil Rights Movement, launching a variety of actions towards racial equality for African Americans. The Seattle CORE chapter, founded in the late 1950s, grew increasingly active by the early 1960s. Inspired by the sit-in movement and freedom rides in the…
ID Number:2014.9.3
Date:1966
Photograph
Panelists for program on racial integration of Musicians' Association of Seattle, January 23, 2018
The American Federation of Music (AFM) Local 493 in Seattle, also known as the "Negro Musicians' Union," was founded in 1918 as Local 458 when African Americans were excluded from Seattle's first musicians' union, AFM Local 76. Local 493 was at the heart of Seattle's vibrant jazz scene, and its E. Jefferson Street "clubhouse," the Blue Note, was a lifeline…
ID Number:2014.43.2.4.MUSIC657
Date:2018
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Souvenir photo folder from the Basin Street Club, Seattle, circa 1945
Seattle's Jackson Street jazz clubs flourished from World War II up until the early 1960s, when the Civil Rights movement broke down barriers barring African Americans from living and working in the larger community. Seattle-born photographer Al Smith was a familiar figure in the clubs, often taking pictures of patrons and friends, then returning the following week to sell the…
ID Number:2014.49.13.5.02
Date:Circa 1945
Photograph
C.L. Dellums at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, May 12, 1944
Labor activist C.L. (Cottrell Lawrence) Dellums (1900-1989) was a porter for the Pullman Company when he was fired in 1927 for his open support of unionization. In 1929, Dellums was elected vice president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and he became president in 1966.C.L. Dellums and A. Philip Randolph, labor organizer and civil rights activist, visited Seattle together…
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder28.004
Date:1944
Photograph
Hiram Gale, Civil War veteran, riding in a parade, April 3, 1948
Hiram Randall Gale (1846-1951), Washington's last living Civil War veteran and former Commander-In-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, rides in a car during Seattle's Heritage Week kickoff parade, April 3, 1948.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder31.001
Date:1948
Photograph
Group at ROOTS family picnic, Seattle, 1985
The tradition of the ROOTS family picnic began in the early 1970s, when Arline and Letcher Yarbrough invited to dinner a group of close friends they hadn’t seen in many years. Those who attended agreed to establish more regular get togethers. Word went out to the “Old Timers,” as they called themselves, to come to a reunion at Seward Park.…
ID Number:2014.49.04.014.09
Date:1985
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A. Philip Randolph at lecturn, Seattle, circa 1947
A. Philip (Asa Philip) Randolph (1889–1979) was a labor organizer and civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).Labor activist C.L. (Cottrell Lawrence) Dellums (1900-1989) was a porter for the Pullman Company when he…
ID Number:2014.49.005.039.0448
Date:Circa 1947