426 results for: Civil Rights
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Bob Santos entering police van at protest at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984
Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. In this image, Seattle civil-rights activist and community organizer Robert (Bob) Santos, wrists zip tied, steps into a police van. He and 22 others were arrested…
ID Number:2014.49.033.057.06
Date:1984
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Protesters at the South African consulate, Seattle, December 9, 1984
Beginning in October 1984, demonstrations were held outside the home of the honorary South African consul in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood to protest the South African government's polices of racial segregation known as apartheid. 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…
ID Number:2014.49.033.059.04
Date:1984
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Hazel Scott at the piano, Seattle, October 11, 1947
Hazel Scott (1920-1981), a classical and jazz pianist and singer, performed at Seattle's Civic Auditorium on October 11, 1947. MOHAI’s 2022 Curator’s Fellow Brittney Frantece explored the photographs in the Al Smith Collection for how they demonstrate Black worldbuilding in Seattle. Looking at this photograph, Frantece offered the following analysis:The Al Smith collection demonstrates that experimentation is key to worldbuilding…
ID Number:2014.49.36.01.01
Date:1947
Poster
Lesbian/Gay Freedom March poster, Seattle, June 27, 1981
The "Stonewall Rebellion 1981 Lesbian/Gay Freedom March" occurred outside the federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle on June 27, 1981. About 1,500 demonstrators participated in the event, criticizing leaders of the country's "Moral Majority" for their conservatism, which marchers said negatively affects the jobs, pay, housing, and life-style of queer people. The event was sponsored by the Stonewall Committee, a Seattle…
ID Number:2014.89.2
Date:1981
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Seafair King and Queen in Seattle, 2003
Seafair Royalty have been a part of Seattle's annual summer celebration since the festival's beginnings in 1950. Each year one man is crowned King Neptune and one woman crowned Queen Alcyone, both chosen based on their philanthropic contributions to the Puget Sound region and ability to inspire the communities in which they live. A Miss Seafair is also selected to…
ID Number:2017.59.33
Date:2003
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Seafair Royalty posing in Seattle, 2003
Seafair Royalty have been a part of Seattle's annual summer celebration since the festival's beginnings in 1950. Each year one man is crowned King Neptune and one woman crowned Queen Alcyone, both chosen based on their philanthropic contributions to the Puget Sound region and ability to inspire the communities in which they live. A Miss Seafair is also selected to…
ID Number:2017.59.48
Date:2003
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Samuel McKinney and Mark Emmert, Seattle, 2007
In this image taken at an unidentified event, Rev. Dr. Samuel Berry McKinney, civil rights activist and Mount Zion Baptist Church pastor emeritus, left, poses with Mark A. Emmert, at the time president of the University of Washington, now president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Caption information source: "McKinney, Samuel Berry (b. 1926)," by Mary T. Henry, HistoryLink.org…
ID Number:2017.59.51
Date:2007
Ephemera
"Be part of history: Join the big march for fair trade" flier, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO’s 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2018.3.3.20
Date:1999
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Be Ready to Rely on Your 3-Day Food Supply, circa 1955
The Emergency Food Supply brochure pictured here was distributed to Seattle and King County residents by King County Civil Defense Department (now Department of Public Defense). It was issued by the Washington State Department of Civil Defense, probably in the 1950s when Seattle was considered a potential Major Target Area for a thermonuclear attack (hydrogen bomb). The instructions include a…
ID Number:2018.3.3.104
Date:Circa 1955
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Rev. Samuel McKinney, Coretta Scott King, and Louise McKinney, Seattle, November 1961
Rev. Samuel B. McKinney, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, invited his friend and former classmate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to speak in Seattle in 1961. Dr. King arrived in Seattle on November 8, spoke at UW's Meany Hall and the Temple de Hirsch on November 9, and Garfield High School and the Eagles Auditorium on November 10. Afterward,…
ID Number:2018.10.7
Date:1961