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Oral history interview with Doug Walker, July 26, 2002

This interview was conducted by Jessah Foulk for the Speaking of Seattle: Information Technology Oral History Project on July 26, 2002. At the time of this interview, Doug Walker was Chairman and CEO of WRQ, Inc. He talks about his youth, his education, and his entry into Seattle’s high-tech industry. He describes the 1981 founding of WRQ on the $500…
ID Number:2019.35.6.14.1
Date:2002
Image of Total Experience Choir performing at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, February 22, 1987
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Total Experience Choir performing at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Seattle, February 22, 1987

The Total Experiece Gosel Choir was founded in 1973 and led by Pastor Patrinell Wright. Though based in Seattle, the choir toured extensively and performed around the world. Wright formed a choir at Franklin High School as an alternative activity for African-American students in 1970, but when a school-funding levy failed in 1973, her position was cut and she began…
ID Number:2020.42.2.04.01.08
Date:1987
Image of Amelia Garza, Grandview City Councillor, February 13, 1992
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Amelia Garza, Grandview City Councillor, February 13, 1992

Amelia Garza (1937-2003) was an advocate for migrant workers in the Yakima Valley. She sat on the Grandview City Council for 13 years and was the first Latina to serve on the council. Garza also founded many community organizations in the Valley to assist residents with health services, education, and literacy. She focused her activism on the needs of people…
ID Number:2020.42.3.19.01.10
Date:1992
Image of Michael Dixon with students at Franklin High School, Seattle, March 6, 1992
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Michael Dixon with students at Franklin High School, Seattle, March 6, 1992

Michael Dixon, younger brother of Aaron and Elmer Dixon, was born in Illinois and grew up in Seattle's Central District. His father worked at Boeing, and both parents taught the Dixon brothers the importance of fighting for social justice. Michael Dixon was a sophomore at Garfield High School when the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party was formed by…
ID Number:2020.42.3.20.02.03
Date:1992
Image of Michael Dixon at Garfield High School, March 6, 1992
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Michael Dixon at Garfield High School, March 6, 1992

Michael Dixon, younger brother of Aaron and Elmer Dixon, was born in Illinois and grew up in Seattle's Central District. His father worked at Boeing, and both parents taught the Dixon brothers the importance of fighting for social justice. Michael Dixon was a sophomore at Garfield High School when the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party was formed by…
ID Number:2020.42.3.20.02.43
Date:1992
Correspondence

Draft of letter from Evelyn Chapman to Washington legislators regarding Title I funding for the Northwest Center, May 26, 1969

Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.01
Date:1969
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Draft of speech given by Evelyn J. Chapman to King County legislators, May 29, 1968

Evelyn Johnson Chapman (1935-2016) and John Hume Chapman (d. 2000) married in 1959 and had three children. Their oldest son, Coolidge, was born with brain damage which caused physical and mental developmental disabilities. Unable to enroll him in Seattle Public Schools for kindergarten, they placed him in an experimental program at the recently formed Northwest Center for the Retarded (now…
ID Number:2024.14.1.04.02
Date:1968
Image of Biff Boreson trick skiing at Sand Point Golf Club, Seattle, January 1972
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Biff Boreson trick skiing at Sand Point Golf Club, Seattle, January 1972

Photographer Josef Scaylea (1913-2004) worked for 35 years as chief photographer for the Seattle Times, winning over 1000 awards for his photographs highlighting the scenery and people in the Pacific Northwest. He donated a collection of his photographs and photography equipment to MOHAI in 1993.Scaylea took this photo of Roosevelt High School student Biff Borenson practicing his trick skiing at…
ID Number:Lib1993.20.318
Date:1972
Image of Columbia City Theater facade, 1986
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Columbia City Theater facade, 1986

The Columbia City Theater was built in 1923 and was home to movie theaters under a few names - the Columbia, the Pix, and the Rainier. It was also a music venue, which reportedly hosted Jimi Hendrix's first show, while he was still a student at Garfield High School. The Rainier Cinema operated in 1970s, showing Black and "Blaxploitation" films.…
ID Number:Lib1993.41.2.126.1
Date:1986
Image of Program for the United Nations Victory Festival, Seattle, December1945
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Program for the United Nations Victory Festival, Seattle, December1945

The Seventh Annual United Nations Christmas Festival, known in 1945 as the Victory Festival, was held at Seattle's Civic Auditorium, with costumed representatives from fourteen countries participating in the "Pageant of the Nations Going Home," a celebration of courage and hope after the devastations of war. United Nations representatives from twenty nations attended, and the entertainment also included performances by…
ID Number:Lib1996.28.22
Date:1945
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